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Out of the Dust
By Hesse, Karen
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-59036-080-7
- Publisher
- New York : Scholastic Press, 1997.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 1997
Gr 5-Up In the midst of the Dust Bowl, 13-year-old Billie Jo loses her mother and unborn brother in an accident that she is partly responsible for and burns her own hands so badly that she may never again find solace in her only pleasure--playing the piano. Growing ever more distant from her brooding father, she hops on a train going west, and discovers that there is no escaping the dust of her Oklahoma home--she is part of it and it is part of her. Hesse uses free-verse poems to advance the plot, allowing the narrator to speak for herself ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
