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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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Karen S. Hesse (born August 29, 1952) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings.She won the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (Scholastic, 1997) .Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) ], via Wikimedia Commons.
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