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Author:

Hesse, Karen, author.

Title:

Out of the dust / Karen Hesse.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Scholastic Press,

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

227 pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

Dust storms--Juvenile fiction.
Farm life--Juvenile fiction.
Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
Poetry--Juvenile fiction.
Oklahoma--Juvenile fiction.
Dust storms--Fiction.
Farm life--Oklahoma--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Oklahoma--History--20th century--Fiction.
Poetry--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Depressions.
Dust storms.
Farm life.
Poetry.
Oklahoma.
Accelerated reader.
Dust storms--Children's literature.--Children's literature.
Farm life--Oklahoma--Children's literature.--Children's literature.
Depressions (Economic)--Children's literature.--Children's literature.
Poetry--Children's literature.
Newbery Medal books.
Oklahoma--Children's literature.--Children's literature.
Newbery Medal books.
1929
Young adult fiction.
Curriculum resource.
Newbery Medal--1998.
Young adult works.
Novels in verse.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels in verse.

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:

1439526869
9781439526866
9780606156653
0606156658
9780590371254
0590371258
9780590376198
0590376195
9780590360807
0590360809

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36123638

LCCN:

96040344

Locations:

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville) — Copies: 10