Out of the dust

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The work Out of the dust represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Out of the dust

Statement of responsibility

Karen Hesse

Creator

• trueHesse, Karen

Subject

• trueFourteen-year-old girls
• trueFathers and daughters
• trueLoss
• Loss (Psychology)
• trueMothers -- Death
• Oklahoma -- Fiction
• trueOklahoma -- History -- 20th century
• Poetry -- Fiction
• trueSelf-acceptance in teenage girls
• trueTeenage girls
• trueTeenage pianists
• trueWheat farming
• Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
• trueDepressions -- 1929-1941
• trueDepressions, 1929-1941
• trueDiscontent in teenage girls
• trueDroughts
• trueDroughts -- Dust Bowl (South Central United States)
• trueDust Bowl (South Central United States)
• trueDust storms
• Dust storms -- Fiction
• trueFarm life
• trueFarm life -- Oklahoma
• Farm life -- Oklahoma -- Fiction

Language

eng

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

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueBleak
• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueLyrical

Award

• Newbery Medal, 1998.
• Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, 1998.
• ALA Notable Children's Book, 1998
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 1997
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 1998
• School Library Journal Best Books, 1997.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1040

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.H4364

LC item number

Ou 1997

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 12

Target audience

pre adolescent