Out of the dust

Title
Out of the dust

Personal Author EPSB
Karen, Hesse

Summary
Fourteen year old Billie Jo growing up in the Oklahoma dust bowl has little joy in her life. When her mother dies as a result of an accident in which Billie Jo is seriously injured, she must find wisdom beyond her years to rise above her pain. 1998 YRCA Nominee

Year Published
1999,
 
1997

Physical Description
227 pages ; 20 cm

Note (Local)
2-Used
 
1-New
 
LOST 06/06/2000 RET. TO COLL. 10/10/2000 - Steele Heights Jr High School - Main - Steele Heights Jr High School - Main
 
YRCA
 
Regular
 
Six plus one traits: Voice.
 
PB

Reading Grade level
3.3.

Age Interest level
Gr. 7-9.

Grade Interest level
5-8.

Program Information
ARx
 
Accelerated Reader 5.3 3.0
 
Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 3.0 18783
 
6.0

Awards
Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, 1998

Subject
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.
 
Dust storms -- Fiction.
 
Farm life -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
 
Poetry -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Oklahoma -- Fiction.

Curriculum Objective
Young readers choice 2000. local
 
Poetry. local
 
Social. 7.2. local

Summary
Fourteen year old Billie Jo growing up in the Oklahoma dust bowl has little joy in her life. When her mother dies as a result of an accident in which Billie Jo is seriously injured, she must find wisdom beyond her years to rise above her pain. 1998 YRCA Nominee

ISBN
9780590371254

Publisher
New York : Scholastic, [1999]
 
©1997


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