Follett Content Book Detail: Out of the Dust by Hesse, Karen

Out of the Dust

Author: Hesse, Karen

Follett Number: 37809X2
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Scholastic, c1997, p1999
Format: 227 pages ; 20 cm
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Depressions 1929 Fiction
Dust Storms Fiction
Farm Life Oklahoma Fiction
Historical Fiction
Oklahoma Fiction
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.

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