Out of the Dust
- ISBN-10
- 1439526869
- ISBN-13
- 9781439526866
- Series
- Out of the Dust
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-08-11
- Author
- Karen Hesse
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-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.
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