Out of the Dust
By Karen Hesse
(Scholastic Press, Hardcover, 9780590360807, 240pp.)
Publication Date: October 1997
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc, Paperback, Paperback, Prebound, , Audio Cassette
Categories: Historical - United States - 20th Century, Classics
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Description
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.
About the Author
Karen Hesse is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many books for children. Her titles include WITNESS, THE CATS IN KRASINSKI SQUARE, and the Newbery Medal winner OUT OF THE DUST, among many others. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two teenaged daughters.
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