Out of the dust. Karen Hesse.
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TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 227 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 0590371258; 0590376195 (hc); 0590371258 (pbk.)Subject(s): Dust storms -- Juvenile fiction | Farm life -- Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction | Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction | Poetry -- Juvenile fiction | Newbery Medal | Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.DDC classification: [Fic] LOC classification: PZ7.H4364 | Ou 1997Awards: Maine Student Book Award 3rd place, 1998-1999 ; Newbery Medal, 1998Summary: 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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| j Geor My side of the mountain | J GEOR On the far side of the mountain | J HADD Found | J HESS Out of the dust. | J HUGO The hunchback of Notre Dame | J IRVI The legend of Sleepy Hollow | J KRUL Doug's big comeback |
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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Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 3.0 18783.
Maine Student Book Award 3rd place, 1998-1999 ; Newbery Medal, 1998
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