Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
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.
This true story took placeat the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's "The Grapes ofWrath." Ostracized as "dumb Okies, " the children of Dust Bowl migrantlaborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kidsbuilt their own school in a nearby field. "The story is inspiring, and Stanleyhas recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculumitem."--(starred) "Booklist."
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