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Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition)
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Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition) Paperback - 1998

by Karen Hesse

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A poem cycle that reads as a novel, this Newbery Medal winner tells the story of Billie Jo, a girl who struggles to help her family survive the dust bowl years of the Depression.

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  • Title Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition)
  • Author Karen Hesse
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scholastic, New York
  • Date 1998-12-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6841485
  • ISBN 9780590371254 / 0590371258
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (19.05 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 12 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 13
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Catalog Heading: Classics
    • Cultural Region: Heartland
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Geographic Orientation: Oklahoma
    • Theometrics: Secular
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Depressions - 1929
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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First line

As summer wheat came ripe, so did I, born at home, on the kitchen floor.

From the rear cover

"DUST PILES UP LIKE SNOW ACROSS THE PRAIRIE..".

A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.

To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2000, Page 1875
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/11/1999, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 04/01/2005, Page 56

About the author

Karen Hesse is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many books for children. Her titles include Witness, The Cats in Krasinski Square, and the Newbery Medal winner Out of the Dust, among many others. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two teenaged daughters.