num_pages: 85
description: 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.
language: English
title: Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
titlecomplete: Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
genres: Historical, History, Childrens, School, Biography, Chapter Books, Education, American History, Picture Books, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1551
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: NCTE Orbis Pictus Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: John and Patricia Beatty Award, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Juvenile Nonfiction
publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell