Hesse, Karen

Out of the dust / Karen Hesse. - New York : Scholastic, c1997 - 227 p.

Newbery Award winner.

In a series of poems, 15-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: 0-590-37619-5 ; 0-590-37125-8 ;

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Farm life--Fiction
Depressions--Fiction--1929
Poetry--Fiction