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Format:
Book
Title:
Out of the dust
ISBN:
9780590360807

9780590376198

9780606156653

9781439526866
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : Scholastic Press, 1997.
Physical Description:
227 pages ; 20 cm
Number in series:
1998.
Contents:
Winter 1934: Beginning : August 1920 -- Rabbit battles -- Losing Livie -- Me and Mad Dog -- Permission to play -- On stage -- Birthday for F.D.R. -- Not too much to ask -- Mr. Hardly's money handling -- Fifty miles south of home -- Rules of dining -- Breaking drought -- Dazzled -- Debts -- Foul as maggoty stew -- State tests -- Fields of flashing light. -- Spring 1934: Tested by dust -- Banks -- Beat wheat -- Give up on wheat -- What I don't know -- Apple blossoms -- World War -- Apples -- Dust and rain -- Harvest -- On the road with Arley. -- Summer 1934: Hope in a drizzle -- Dione Quintuplets -- Wild boy of the road -- The accident -- Burns -- Nightmare -- A tent of pain -- Drinking -- Devoured -- Blame -- Birthday -- Roots -- The empty spaces -- The hole -- Kilauea -- Boxes -- Night bloomer -- The path of our sorrow. -- Autumn 1934: Hired work -- Almost rain -- Those hands -- Real snow -- Dance revue -- Mad Dog's tale -- Art exhibit. --

Winter 1935: State tests again -- Christmas dinner without the cranberry sauce -- Driving the cows -- First rain -- Haydon P. Nye -- Scrubbing up dust -- Outlined by dust -- The President's ball -- Lunch -- Guests -- Family school -- Birth -- Time to go -- Something sweet from moonshine -- Dreams -- The competition -- The piano player -- No good -- Snow -- Night school -- Dust pneumonia -- Dust storm -- Broken promise -- Motherless -- Following in his steps. -- Spring 1935: Heartsick -- Skin -- Regrets -- Fire on the rails -- The mail train -- Migrants -- Blankets of black -- The visit -- Freak show -- Help from Uncle Sam -- Let down -- Hope -- The rain's gilt -- Hope smothered -- Sunday afternoon in the Amarillo Hotel -- Baby -- Old bones. -- Summer 1935: The dream -- Midnight truth -- Out of the dust -- Gone West -- Something lost, something gained -- Homeword bound -- Met. -- Autumn 1935: Cut it deep -- The other woman -- Not everywhere -- My life, or what I told Louise after the tenth time she came to dinner -- November dust -- Thanksgiving list -- Music -- Teamwork -- Finding a way. --
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.
Reading Level:
Grades 3-7.

1040L Lexile.

Middle School.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 3.0 Quiz: 18783.

AR 5.3 3.0.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.3 3.0 18783.
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