by Karen Hesse · GREAT SOURCE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780590371254
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«Out of the Dust» is Karen Hesse's historical novel for young adults, published by Great Source in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Written in free verse, it follows Billie Jo, a teenager growing up on a wheat farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. An accident damages her hands, her mother leaves, and her father goes silent; dust storms ravage the region. She can no longer play the piano, her comfort, but finds the strength to carry on and find peace.
Winner of the Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award in 1998; first published in 1997.
For young readers and preteens, especially those who enjoy historical fiction and poetry.
Karen S. Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. She received the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (1997).
