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 publisher
85 pages 978-0517880944 Ages 8-12
Book Pairing: Pair this book with OUT OF THE DUST by Karen Hesse (Contributed by Dr. Patricia Stohr-Hunt, University of Richmond, VA USA)
