- Published: New York : Scholastic Press, 1997.
- Year Published: 1997
- Description: 227 p. ; 20 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
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ISBN/Standard Number
- 0590376195
- 0590371258 :
- 0590360809 :
Series
Subjects
- Dust storms -- Fiction.
- Farm life -- Fiction. -- Oklahoma
- Depressions -- Fiction. -- 1929
- Poetry -- Fiction.
- Oklahoma -- Fiction.
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AAPS Level X billie jo scott o’dell award winner oklahoma farm life drought karen hesse newbery medal winner children's poetry depressions poems for kids teen fiction dust storms ALA Notable Children's Books 1998
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Call number: Y Fiction , R Newbery Medal 1998, Y Fiction (Paperback)
Available Copies: Downtown Youth
Additional Details
Youth level.
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.
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Well written and very descriptive
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