Children of the Dust Bowl
Subtitle: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780785716754
Subjects: Droughts; Historical - United States - General; Children: Grades 3-4; California; Juvenile literature; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Great Plains; Education; Depressions; Arvin; History; 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.