Out of the dust

Title Out of the dust
Names Hesse, Karen.
Book Number DB046712
Title Status Download Only
Medium Digital Book
Annotation Told in free verse, an account of two years in the life of Billie Jo Kelby, who at thirteen loses her mother and new baby brother in a terrible accident for which she is partly to blame. Life in Oklahoma in the mid-1930s is difficult, and Billie Jo can no longer play the piano--her one solace in the past. She seeks a way to heal her father and herself. For grades 6-9. Newbery Medal.
Narrator Schraf, Kimberly.
Audience Notes Female narrator. NLS/BPH
For grades 4-7. NLS/BPH
Newbery Medal winner. NLS/BPH
Local Subject Juvenile Fiction - JF
Historical fiction - HIF
LC Subject Depressions - 1929 - Juvenile fiction
Dust storms - Juvenile fiction
Farm life - Oklahoma - Juvenile fiction
Oklahoma - Juvenile fiction
Poetry, Juvenile
Call Number [Fic]
Language English
Released 1997
Publication Info New York Scholastic Press 1997
Original Publication Recorded from: New York : Scholastic Press, 1997. 0590360809
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