Out Of The Dust

from Nicole.Virden

Out of the Dust is a book about a fourteen year old girl named Billie Jo who loses her mother and baby brother and along with that she loses her desire to play the piano. Her father will not talk about her mother being gone and really wont talk much to Billie Jo at all. She feels like she is livi...

from debnance

Billie Jo and her parents are struggling to survive. There is no money. The farm has had no rain. Worst of all, storms are blowing across the land, raining dust on everything. And then, in the midst of all the suffering, comes tragedy: Billie Jo's mother and tiny baby brother die in a horrible ac...

from JessicaMurphree

This book is about a family from Oklahoma. This book about what happened during the Dust Bowl and the Depression Era. This book won the John Newberry Medal. Billie Jo loves to play the piano. The only crop her father grows is wheat. Her mother loves her apple tree. Her mother is also expecting a ...

from ShelbyJoMcKay

Billie Jo is a young girl that lives in the Oklahoma. The year is 1935, and it is dusty. She loves to play the piano like her ma, but is stubborn and lanky like her daddy. All of her siblings have died, and she is their only child. Her parents are so in love, but one day there is an accident in t...

from RomikaC

"Out of the Dust" is the story of Billy Jo Kelby and her family, who are farmers. The family struggles to make it, although times are hard a dust storm causes more problems for the family. Billy Jo's dad has a real connection with farming and takes pride in his land. Her mother not so much but, "...