TY - BOOK AU - Jerry Stanley TI - Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp SN - 9780307792471 AV - LC5152.C2 U1 - 371.9675098 PY - 2014/// PB - Knopf Books for Young Readers N1 - 1120 N2 - 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. From the Trade Paperback edition ER -