Title: Out of the Dust
First published: 1997
Description: "Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."

A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.

To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

This Newbery Award winning book relates the hardships of the Depression in a series of poems.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Depressions, Poetry, Farm life, Dust storms, Oklahoma in fiction, Dust storms in fiction, Poetry in fiction, Farm life in fiction, Depressions in fiction, History, Depressions (Economic), Children's literature, American Poets, Accelerated reader, Children's poetry, American, Novels in verse, Newbery Medal books, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, Newbery Medal, Children's fiction, Farm life, fiction, Oklahoma, fiction, Depressions, fiction, Literature and fiction, juvenile, Large type books, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939, Spanish language, Tempêtes de poussière, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Vie à la ferme, Crises économiques, Poésie, Espagnol (Langue), Tolvaneras, Novela, Vida agrícola, Crisis económicas, Poesía, Great Depression, 1929-1939, Oklahoma, history, fiction, Poetry, fiction, Children, fiction, award:Newbery_award, lexile_code:NP, age:min:9, age:max:12, grade:min:7 and up, grade:max:undefined
Places: Oklahoma
People: Billy Jo
Time periods: 1934, 20th century