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100 1 _aHesse, Karen.
245 1 0 _aOut of the dust /
_cKaren Hesse.
260 _aNew York :
_bScholastic Signature,
_c1999, c1997.
300 _a227 p. ;
505 0 _aAfter 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.
520 _aIn 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.
650 0 _aDust storms
650 0 _aFarm life
650 0 _aDepressions
650 0 _aPoetry
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