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Out of the dust  Cover Image Book Book

Out of the dust / Karen Hesse.

Hesse, Karen. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0590360809
  • ISBN: 0590371258
  • ISBN: 0590376195
  • ISBN: 9780590371254
  • Physical Description: 227 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 1997.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
6.
010-up.
Awards Note:
Newbery Medal, 1998
Subject: Newbery Medal > 1998.
Dust storms > Juvenile fiction.
Farm life > Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction.
Poetry > Juvenile fiction.
Dust storms > Fiction.
Farm life > Oklahoma > Fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > Fiction.
Poetry > Fiction.
Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction.
Oklahoma > Fiction.


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