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Out of the dust / Karen Hesse.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Youth Hesse Out
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hesse, Karen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dust storms--Juvenile fiction.
- Dust storms.
- Farm life--Oklahoma--Juvenile fiction.
- Farm life.
- Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
- Depressions.
- Poetry--Juvenile fiction.
- Poetry.
- Oklahoma--Juvenile fiction.
- Oklahoma.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Novels in verse.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages, 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [New edition]
- [Scholastic gold edition]
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scholastic, Inc., [2018]
- Summary:
- A poem cycle that reads as a novel, "Out of the Dust" tells the story of Billie Jo, a girl who struggles to help her family survive the Dust Bowl years of the Depression. Fighting against the elements on her Oklahoma farm, Billie Jo takes on even more responsibilities when her mother dies in a tragic accident. A testament to the American spirit, this novel is an instant classic.
- Contents:
- Out of the dust:: Winter 1934: Beginning : August 1920
- Rabbit battles
- Losing Livie
- Me and Mad Dog
- Permission to play
- On stage
- Birthday for F.D.R.
- Not too much to ask
- Mr. Hardly's money handling
- Fifty miles south of home
- Rules of dining
- Breaking drought
- Dazzled
- Debts
- Foul as maggoty stew
- State tests
- Fields of flashing light.
- Spring 1934: Tested by dust
- Banks
- Beat wheat
- Give up on wheat
- What I don't know
- Apple blossoms
- World War
- Apples
- Dust and rain
- Harvest
- On the road with Arley.
- Summer 1934: Hope in a drizzle
- Dione Quintuplets
- Wild boy of the road
- The accident
- Burns
- Nightmare
- A tent of pain
- Drinking
- Devoured
- Blame
- Birthday
- Roots
- The empty spaces
- The hole
- Kilauea
- Boxes
- Night bloomer
- The path of our sorrow.
- Autumn 1934: Hired work
- Almost rain
- Those hands
- Real snow
- Dance revue
- Mad Dog's tale
- Art exhibit.
- Winter 1935: State tests again
- Christmas dinner without the cranberry sauce
- Driving the cows
- First rain
- Haydon P. Nye
- Scrubbing up dust
- Outlined by dust
- The President's ball
- Lunch
- Guests
- Family school
- Birth
- Time to go
- Something sweet from moonshine
- Dreams
- The competition
- The piano player
- No good
- Snow
- Night school
- Dust pneumonia
- Dust storm
- Broken promise
- Motherless
- Following in his steps.
- Spring 1935: Heartsick
- Skin
- Regrets
- Fire on the rails
- The mail train
- Migrants
- Blankets of black
- The visit
- Freak show
- Help from Uncle Sam
- Let down
- Hope
- The rain's gilt
- Hope smothered
- Sunday afternoon in the Amarillo Hotel
- Baby
- Old bones.
- Summer 1935: The dream
- Midnight truth
- Out of the dust
- Gone West
- Something lost, something gained
- Homeword bound
- Met.
- Autumn 1935: Cut it deep
- The other woman
- Not everywhere
- My life, or what I told Louise after the tenth time she came to dinner
- November dust
- Thanksgiving list
- Music
- Teamwork
- Finding a way.
- After words / Mary Jones: About the author
- Behind the scenes : writing out of dust
- Q&A with Karen Hesse
- Photographing the Great Depression
- Billie Jo's World
- Make your own applesauce
- Extracts from Karen Hesse's Newberry Medal speech.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover in 1997. "This edition first printing 2018."--Title page verso.
- "Scholastic Gold includes After Words [guide by Mary Jones with]: bonus contet, interviews, and interactivity"-- Back cover.
- Newbery Medal, 1998
- ALA Notable Books for Children, 1998.
- ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 1998.
- Ten Best Books for Young Adults, 1998.
- Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 1998.
- ISBN:
- 9780590371254
- 0590371258
- 9780780793187
- 0780793188
- OCLC:
- 1126783805
- Online:
- Reading guide by Mary Varilla Jones
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