Out of the Dust
About this book
"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
- accelerated reader
- american poets
- award:newbery_award
- children, fiction
- children's fiction
- children's literature
- children's poetry, american
- crises économiques
- crisis económicas
- depressions
- depressions (economic)
- depressions, fiction
- depressions in fiction
- dust bowl era, 1931-1939
- dust storms
- dust storms in fiction
- espagnol (langue)
- farm life
- farm life, fiction
- farm life in fiction
- fiction
- great depression, 1929-1939
- history
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- lexile_code:np
- literature and fiction, juvenile
- newbery medal
- newbery medal books
- novela
- novels in verse
- oklahoma, fiction
- oklahoma, history, fiction
- oklahoma in fiction
- poesía
- poésie
- poetry
- poetry, fiction
- poetry in fiction
- reading level-grade 4
- reading level-grade 5
- reading level-grade 6
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- spanish language
- tempêtes de poussière
- tolvaneras
- vida agrícola
- vie à la ferme