Children of the dust bowl: the true story of the school at weedpatch camp - Jerry Stanley

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A compelling book about the children of homeless Okie migrant workers and the school they built at a farm-labor camp in Dust Bowl-era California.

Heralded by Kirkus in a pointer review as lucid, dramatic, and splendidly inspiring, here is a lavishly illustrated .

informative and inspirational bit of American history (School Library Journal, starred review).

Illustrated with photos from the Dust Bowl era.

1993 ALA Notable Book; 1992 Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies; 1992 Booklist Editors' Choice; 1992 Library of Congress Book of the Year; 1993 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children.

Illus.

with photographs from the Dust Bowl era.

This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath .

Ostracized as dumb Okies, the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.