Skip to product information
Out of the Dust won the 1998 Newbery Medal, among other awards, and is a novel in verse by Karen Hesse about a teenage girl named Billie Jo. The summary is: Billie Jo experiences both the devastation of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and immense personal tragedy when her mother and baby brother die in a fire. Though the dust and grief make it hard for her to play the piano she loves, she eventually finds a way to survive, heal, and look toward a future with her father, who also finds healing and begins a new relationship.
$4.00