00987cam a2200289 4500 55697314 TxAuBib 20001020120000.0 990619s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 96-40344 9780590360807 $15.95 0590360809 $15.95 TxAuBib HESSE, KAREN. Out of the dust / Karen Hesse. 1st ed. New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 1997. 227 p ; 20 cm. 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. 19990619. John Newbery Medal. Dust storms Fiction. Farm life Oklahoma Fiction. Depressions 1929 Fiction. Oklahoma Fiction. POETRY Fiction.