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. | Children Of The Dust Bowl: The True Story Of The School At Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley, Paperback | Indigo Chapters