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  • Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

    by Jerry Stanley ...
    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. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

    by Jerry Stanley ...
    Narrated by Fred Sullivan ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 24 min

    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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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