| Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition) |  | Author: Karen Hesse
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Edition: 1St Edition
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: SB-0590371258
ISBN: 0590371258
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Publication Date: January 1, 1999
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OUT OF THE DUST NEWBERRY WINNER
Amazon.com Review
Like the Oklahoma dust bowl from which she came, 14-year-old narrator Billie Jo writes in sparse, free-floating verse. In this compelling, immediate journal, Billie Jo reveals the grim domestic realities of living during the years of constant dust storms: That hopes--like the crops--blow away in the night like skittering tumbleweeds. That trucks, tractors, even Billie Jo's beloved piano, can suddenly be buried beneath drifts of dust. Perhaps swallowing all that grit is what gives Billie Jo--our strong, endearing, rough-cut heroine--the stoic courage to face the death of her mother after a hideous accident that also leaves her piano-playing hands in pain and permanently scarred. Meanwhile, Billie Jo's silent, windblown father is literally decaying with grief and skin cancer before her very eyes. When she decides to flee the lingering ghosts and dust of her homestead and jump a train west, she discovers a simple but profound truth about herself and her plight. There are no tight, sentimental endings here--just a steady ember of hope that brightens Karen Hesse's exquisitely written and mournful tale. Hesse won the 1998 Newbery Award for this elegantly crafted, gut-wrenching novel, and her fans won't want to miss The Music of Dolphins or Letters from Rifka. (Ages 9 and older) --Gail Hudson
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 Stark and Beautiful September 2, 2010
Maggie Hasbrouck (Atlanta GA)
My family listened to this book on a long car ride. We were all deeply moved. I have since learned that the writing is set in prose and I wish I had read the physical book.
For middle schoolers this book is a fine introduction to the dust bowl and the depression.. There is quite a bit of sadness, I wouldn't recommend it for younger than 5th grade.
 Seeking Hope in LIfe's Hidden Treasures May 31, 2010
Gale Finlayson
This 1998 Newbery award winner presents a poignant, down-to--earth account of a year in the devastating life of 14-year-old Billie Jo, growing up during the 1930's Depression. After a prolonged drought Oklahoma has become a veritable dust bowl, where few crops are able to grow--certainly not her father's wheat. Financial despair is made evident by thick coatings of dust on everything in both her exterior and interior environments. There is no escape from the inexorable indifference of Nature to man's pain.
The protagonist's situation becomes even more lamentable
as a result of a tragic household accident which scarred four lives:
kerosene mistaken for water left on a stove. Billie Jo's only solace in this dust bowl is playing the family's modest piano, but as if the needless loss of life after the fire were not enough, Billie Jo suffers the use of her hands so she can no longer escape her misery at the keyboard. Disfigured, shunned by her peers and rejected by her morose father, she yearns to get out of the Dust any way possible. Doesn't she have a right to leave the devastation behind her, to seek a new life where she can finally breathe free?
The author's literary style offers teenage readers an additional challenge, for this unique book consists of a series of free verse poems--rather than traditional narrative prose. Teens typically experience difficulty redefining their relationships with their parents, but Billie Jo--who adores her mother despite their musical differences--is consumed by guilt over her inadvertent role in the family tragedy. While extremely depressing on the surface the plot (Nature's remorseless unrolling of anguish upon hapless people) hints of distant hope for the human spirit. Despite the bitter realism this book will leave most readers with a reminder that we should cherish what we most value in this life while we are privileged to have and recognize it. Serious YA fare in a spare and unique format.
excellent May 9, 2010
SSL (Brooklyn, NY United States)
Very effective. I've never liked poetry, and could never quite figure out the point of free verse, but it really works. One caveat--I thought this would be quick, easy reading because there are so few words on a page. NOT. There's something about finishing a "poem" that makes you stop and think about it, and I stopped for a few minutes after almost each and every one.
Out of the dust is one of my favorite! April 16, 2010
Mrs. Duarte's Class (Colorado)
Have you ever read "Out of the Dust"? Its a outstanding book but at the same time its pensive. It's about Billie Jo's life she leaves in Oklahoma, she had been by herself with her dad, because her mom had died in a fire accident, she saw what happened to her mom. Her mom was nearly to have a baby when she went and put the pot on the stove, then fire started coming out of the stove and the fire had burned Billie Jo's mom, She also burned her hands, her mom was crying alot that she gave birth in the kitchen window. Billie Jo had run to go get water so the fire could stop but it was to late her hands were burned and her mom gaved birth and she died so did the little baby, but her dad came and called the doctor but the doctor said, "I am sorry, Its too late". Billie Jo and her dad were really depressing, their tears came out of their eyes and Billie Jo's dad's sister came from Lubber and she wanted to hold her nephew, but he told her what happened that he cried every time he remembered that day.
Out of the dust is a good book and It's very tragical It makes you picture what is happening in the book. The part that was very mournful was that Billie Jo doesn't have a mom and a brother specially she doesn't have a family next to her to help her and everything she needs. They live In different places, she likes playing piano suchlike her mom, she showed her how to and she wants to play piano to tenacious her memories. She loves to play piano she wants to enter to a concert and play with her friends, but she doesn't know if to because she doesn't have enough money. She has to work with her dad and make money and she has to take care of the farm, Billie Jo had think alot if she should enter the concert so she can play piano and if she should help her dad with the farm and to find money well if you are curious well you should find this book and read it and find out what is she n going to do. Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak of Oklahoma and in the surprising landscape of her own heart. This is an amazing and a pensive book I am really sure your going to love it and picture all the things she've been through by her own. I recommend this book because It's a pensive book and it will make you picture and imagine how lonely and sad shes feeling . The author is Karen Hesse. Karen Hesse is a great author she describes whats happening and how is Oklahoma and she evens expressed how Billie Jo's life have been without her mom, Billie Jo wants her mom so she could tell her many things and how have she done at school. Well if you really want to know how have her life been and what have she done well I think you should buy and read the book.
A 4th grade student February 26, 2010
Mollie E. Gabrielson (South Dakota)
This book will make anyone smile it is beautifly written in poetry by Karen Hesse. While you read you have to flip back to the front cover and look at the picture of the little girl I caught myself saying "did that really happen to you." Although this book is one of the saddest it is still very sweet. It will definitly pulls your heartstrings out of place.I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who likes history and the Oklahoma dust bowl.
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