Hesse, Karen.

Out of the dust / Karen Hesse. - First Scholastic paperback printing, January 1999 - New York : Scholastic, 1997 - 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.

Newbery Medal, 1998.

0590360809 9780590371254

96040344


Novels in verse.
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939--Fiction.
Farm life--Oklahoma--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Poetry--Fiction.


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

PZ7.5.H49 / Ou 2004

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