Hesse, Karen.

Out of the dust / Karen Hesse. - An Apple Signature ed. - New York : Scholastic Press, [1999] - 227 p. ; 20 cm.

Winner of the Newberry Medal, 1997.
Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award.

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.

ISBN: 0590371258

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Dust storms
Farm life
Depressions