Out of the dust /
Hesse, Karen.
Out of the dust / Karen Hesse. - New York : Scholastic Signature, 1999, c1997. - 227 p. ;
After words: -- About the author -- Behind the scenes : writing Out of the dust -- Q&A with Karen Hesse -- Photographing the great depression -- Billie Jo's world -- Make your own applesauce -- Extracts from Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal speech.
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.
0590371258 9780590371254
Dust storms
Farm life
Depressions
Poetry
Out of the dust / Karen Hesse. - New York : Scholastic Signature, 1999, c1997. - 227 p. ;
After words: -- About the author -- Behind the scenes : writing Out of the dust -- Q&A with Karen Hesse -- Photographing the great depression -- Billie Jo's world -- Make your own applesauce -- Extracts from Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal speech.
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.
0590371258 9780590371254
Dust storms
Farm life
Depressions
Poetry