The True Story of the S (Hardcover, Library edition)


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. "The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."--(starred) "Booklist."

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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. "The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."--(starred) "Booklist."

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Imprint

Crown Publications

Country of origin

United States

Release date

May 1995

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Dimensions

241 x 210 x 12mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

85

Edition

Library edition

ISBN-13

978-0-517-58782-9

Barcode

9780517587829

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LSN

0-517-58782-3



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