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Out of the dust

Title
Out of the dust / by Karen Hesse.
Author
Hesse, Karen.
Publication
  • New York : Scholastic Press, 1997.
  • ©1997
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Description
227 pages; 20 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • 1929
  • Dust storms > Juvenile fiction
  • Farm life > Juvenile fiction
  • Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction
  • Poetry > Juvenile fiction
  • Dust storms > Fiction
  • Farm life > Oklahoma > Fiction
  • Depressions > 1929 > Fiction
  • Poetry > Fiction
  • Depressions
  • Dust storms
  • Farm life
  • Poetry
  • Oklahoma > Juvenile fiction
  • Oklahoma > History > 20th century > Fiction
  • Oklahoma
Genre/Form
  • Fiction.
  • Juvenile works.
  • Bildungsromans.
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • Novels in verse.
Awards (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JFC 98-1854
ISBN
0590360809
LCCN
96040344
OCLC
36123638
Author
Hesse, Karen.
Title
Out of the dust / by Karen Hesse.
Publisher
New York : Scholastic Press, 1997.
Copyright Date
©1997
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Awards
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.
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Chronological Term
1929
Research Call Number
JFC 98-1854
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