Out of the dust

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Out of the dust

Author:

Hesse, Karen.

ISBN:

9780307207371

9780307284037

9780590371254

Edition:

Library ed., unabridged.

Publication Information:

New York : Random House/Listening Library, ℗1998.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs (approximately 129 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Unabridged.

Contents:

CD 1. Winter 1934-Winter 1935 (beginning) (64:20) -- CD 2. Winter 1935 (concluded)-end (65:17).

Summary:

During the Great Depression, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo must endure heartwrenching ordeals that no child should have to face. She and her parents struggle to keep their Oklahoma farm running as a drought and devastating dust storms take a toil on both the land and the family. In this midst of this turmoil, a tragic household accident badly injures both Billie Jo and her mother. The quiet strength Billie Jo displays while dealing with such unspeakable loss is as surprising as it is inspiring.

Reading Level:

Ages 10 and up.

Subject(s):

Dust storms -- Juvenile fiction.

Farm life -- Oklahoma -- Juvenile fiction.

Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction.

Poetry -- Juvenile fiction.

Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 -- Juvenile fiction.

Dust storms -- Fiction.

Farm life -- Oklahoma -- Fiction.

Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.

Poetry -- Fiction.