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Children of the Dust Bowl

The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

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Children of the Dust Bowl

By: Jerry Stanley
Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
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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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"The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."—(starred) Booklist.

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I’d love to see pictures of this camp if possible! Every teacher and superintendent should read this yearly as they form their goals for the school.

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