W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Out of the Dust /

Hesse, Karen, 1952- , author.

Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse. - New York : Scholastic, 1998, c1997. - 227 pages ; 20 cm.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Guided reading: X Middle grade.

Newbery Medal, 1998.

0590360809 0590376195

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Dust storms--Fiction.
Farm life--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.


Oklahoma--History--20th century--Fiction.


Novels in verse.
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General.

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