Children of the Dust Bowl
Subtitle: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
Published: July 13, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780517880944
Subjects: Depressions; Great Plains; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; California; History; Education; Children: Grades 4-6; Droughts; Historical - United States - General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / General; Arvin; Juvenile literature; Southwestern States; 1929; 20th century; Children of migrant laborers
First sentence: Life had always been hard on the farmers who lived in Oklahoma, and in the 1930s it was especially hard on those who lived in the Panhandle, a barren stretch of rock and red soil sandwiched between Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico.