Out of the Dust

  • Out of the Dust
    By Karen Hesse

    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.

  • Out of the Dust
    By Karen Hesse

    When I asked him if he wanted me to go off to Aunt Ellis after all, Daddy said he hadn't ever wanted it, he said I was his own and he didn't like to think about what Aunt Ellis might do with me. And we laughed, picturing me and Aunt ...

  • Out of the Dust
    By Karen Hesse, Linda Beech

    Cover design by Vincent Ceci and Jaime Lucero . Interior design by Grafica , Inc. Original cover and interior design by Drew Hires . Interior illustrations by Jenny Williams . Jacket cover from OUT OF THE DUST by Karen Hesse .

  • Out of the Dust
    By Karen Hesse

    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.

  • Out of the Dust: New and Selected Poems
    By Janice Mirikitani

    From the dust of the World Trade Center in New York to the retaliatory ashes of the dead in America’s war in Afghanistan, the poems in this volume seek to explicate the connections of our humanity to the reactionary profiling of people of ...

  • Out of the Dust
    By Tom Linley

    Biography of Gene Rainbolt

  • Out of the Dust: Hauptbd. . / Annot. by Mechthild Hesse
    By Karen Hesse

    Out of the Dust: Hauptbd. . / Annot. by Mechthild Hesse

  • Out of the Dust: Story of an Unlikely Missionary
    By Marti Pieper, Avis Goodhart

    This compelling story of an ordinary woman who serves God in extraordinary ways will challenge, inspire, and empower you to: * Eliminate excuses from your life * Recognize that in God’s kingdom, availability matters more than ability * ...

  • Out of the Dust
    By Tara McCarthy, Grades 4-8 Books

    Teacher resource for running literature circles.

  • Out of the Dust
    By Karen Hesse

    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.

  • Out of the Dust: Utah's Lost Mines and Hidden Treasures
    By Stephen B. Shaffer

    Out of the Dust: Utah's Lost Mines and Hidden Treasures

  • Out of the Dust: Teacher's guide. / By Mechthild Hesse
    By Karen Hesse

    Out of the Dust: Teacher's guide. / By Mechthild Hesse

  • Out of the Dust
    By Karen Hesse

    A poem cycle that reads as a novel, this Newbery Medal winner tells the story of Billie Jo, a girl who struggles to help her family survive the dust bowl years of the Depression.