Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took placeat the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes ofWrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrantlaborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kidsbuilt their own school in a nearby field. "The story is inspiring, and Stanleyhas recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculumitem."--(starred) Booklist.
