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Stanley, Jerry, 1941-
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Children of migrant laborers -- Education -- California -- Arvin -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Droughts -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains -- Juvenile literature.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Southwestern States -- Juvenile literature.
Migrant labor -- California -- Juvenile literature.
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Children of the Dust...
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Children of the Dust Bowl : the true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp / Jerry Stanely.
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Stanley, Jerry, 1941-
New York : Random House Publishing Group, c1992.
Subjects
Children of migrant laborers -- Education -- California -- Arvin -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Droughts -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains -- Juvenile literature.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Southwestern States -- Juvenile literature.
Migrant labor -- California -- Juvenile literature.
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9780517880944 (pbk.)
0517880946 (pbk.)
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85 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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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.
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J -- Juvenile Nonfiction
371.96 Stanley
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