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Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
by Jerry Stanley
Crown Pub
Illustrated 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.
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After you read: Would you have liked to go to school at Weedpatch Camp? Why or why not?
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