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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hesse, Karen.

Out of the Dust / by Karen Hesse.

p. cm.

Summary: 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.

[1. Dust storms—Fiction. 2. Farm Life—Oklahoma—Fiction. 3. Depressions—1929—Fiction. 4. Oklahoma—Fiction. 5. Poetry—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.H4364Ou 1997

[Fic]—dc21

96-40344

CIP

AC

First Edition, October 1997

Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

e-ISBN 978-0-545-51712-6

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