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Out of the dust

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.

Main Author: Hesse, Karen.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scholastic Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Dust storms > Juvenile fiction.
Farm life > Juvenile fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction.
Poetry > Juvenile fiction.
Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: 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.
Physical Description: p. cm.
ISBN: 0590360809
0590376195
9780590376198
9780590371254
Author Notes: Karen Hesse (born on August 29, 1952 Baltimore, Maryland) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults. She studied theatre at Towson State College, and finished her undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland in English, Psychology, and Anthropology. In 1998 she won the Newbery Medal for her young adult novel, Out of the Dust.

Hesse lives in Vermont with her husband and two teen-aged daughters.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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