Out of the Dust
- ISBN-10
- 0590360809
- ISBN-13
- 9780590360807
- Series
- Out of the Dust
- Category
- Depressions
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- 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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