A high school teacher and a librarian are collecting and analyzing material in every medium for teaching John Steinbeck's novel, "The Grapes of Wrath," including the political and social history of the 1930s--altogether some 33 topic headings touched upon in the novel and in about 54 related works: books, films, television documentaries, still photographs, record albums and sound tapes, filmstrips, magazine and newspaper articles, and more. These are being linked and indexed by topic to provide an extensive and interesting educational resource and an interactive teaching tool, the Grapevine. This project will reflect the perspectives of a classroom teacher teaching the novel, a high school librarian, and an educational technologist. When the database is completed, teachers will have an extensive body of teaching material linked by topic, which they will be able to edit, modify, add to, and rearrange. In its ultimate stage of development, the system will permit a teacher to manipulate and integrate text, still and moving pictures, and sound in order to create multimedia documents. The developers of this system need a database program that will allow them to make many links from a single piece of information; create an index for use in searching, browsing, and manipulating text; and provide an interface with CD-ROM. They also need an authoring system that will allow the user to add, change, and link materials, and copyright issues will have to be worked out. (EW)