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Title: Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Karen Hesse
ISBN: 9780590360807
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 4th Printing
Number of Pages: 160
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher : Acclaimed author Karen Hesse’s Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma.”Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . .”A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo’s life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can’t talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better — playing the piano — is impossible with her wounded make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma — and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.
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