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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
  • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

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Children of the Dust Bowl

By: Jerry Stanley
Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
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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 curriculum item."—(starred) Booklist.
©2014 Jerry Stanley (P)2024 Listening Library
Nature Education & Learning Geography & Cultures North America
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"The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."—(starred) Booklist.

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