Jerry Stanley

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Jerry Stanley



“I’ve learned there’s no such thing as wasted writing or bad writing. All writing leads to better writing.”

Jerry Stanley is the author of several highly praised books for young readers, including Children of the Dust Bowl, winner of the Orbis Pictus Award; I Am an American, an ALA Notable Book; and Hurry Freedom, a National Book Award nominee and winner of the Orbis Pictus Award. He is a former professor of history at California State University.

Being a writer is one of the great achievements of my life. As a teenager growing up in Detroit, Michigan, I hated school, all my teachers, and learning in general. When I was expelled from high school at the age of seventeen for fighting, I had passed two units—one in woodshop and one in gym. In bi
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Average rating: 4.13 · 2,045 ratings · 474 reviews · 14 distinct worksSimilar authors
Children of the Dust Bowl: ...

4.16 avg rating — 1,774 ratings — published 1997 — 23 editions
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I Am an American: A True St...

4.19 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
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Hurry Freedom

4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Big Annie of Calumet: A Tru...

3.69 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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Digger: The Tragic Fate of ...

3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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Cowboys & Longhorns: A Port...

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Frontier Merchants: Lionel ...

3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Jerry Stanley's Sports Trai...

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Yes, Hypnosis Can Help You ...

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“of Weedpatch Camp were working in the fields. Perhaps as many as fifty children were playing baseball at the school or swimming in the pool when three cars driven by teenage boys began to circle the playground. The teenage boys got out of the cars and squared off in front of Eddie and a line of other sixteen-year-old boys from the camp. When the intruders hurled rocks into the swimming pool, the Okie boys charged forward and the Fight was on. Some men from the camp rushed over to the playground to restore order, but by then the invaders were in retreat with bloody noses and scuffed faces. That”
Jerry Stanley, Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

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