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Author:

Hesse, Karen.

Title:

Out of the dust / Karen Hesse.

Publisher:

Scholastic Signature

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

227 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

1929.
Dust storms--Juvenile fiction.
Dust storms--Fiction.
Farm life--Oklahoma--Juvenile fiction.
Farm life--Oklahoma--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Poetry--Juvenile fiction.
Poetry--Fiction.
Depressions.
Dust storms.
Farm life.
Poetry.
Oklahoma--Juvenile fiction.
Oklahoma--Fiction.
Oklahoma.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.

Contents:

After words: -- About the author -- Behind the scenes : writing Out of the dust -- Q & A with Karen Hesse -- Photographing the great depression -- Billie Jo's world -- Make your own applesauce -- Extracts from Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal speech.

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.

ISBN:

0590376195
9780590376198

Locations:

FKPA224 -- Farmersburg Public Library (Farmersburg)