TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hesse,Karen
TI  - Out of the dust
SN  - 0590371258
PY  - 1999///, c1997
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic Signature
KW  - Dust storms
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Depressions
KW  - Poetry
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -