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Out of the dust

Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Elementary and junior high school : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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. Exquisitely written, this Newbery Medal-winner is a poetic, compelling, and often melancholy novel of a young girl growing up in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the Depression.
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Genre/Form: Bildungsromans
Domestic fiction
Historical fiction
Fiction
Juvenile fiction
Material Type: Elementary and junior high school, Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Karen Hesse
ISBN: 0590360809 9780590360807 0590376195 9780590376198 0590371258 9780590371254
OCLC Number: 36123638
Awards: Newbery Medal, 1998.
Description: 227 p. ; 20 cm.
Responsibility: Karen Hesse.

Abstract:

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. Exquisitely written, this Newbery Medal-winner is a poetic, compelling, and often melancholy novel of a young girl growing up in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the Depression.

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