Out of the Dust
By: Karen Hesse
     Have you ever read a book about the terrible disaster of the dust bowls in Oklahoma?  Do you know the troubles of a teenage girl who has to change who she is to survive?  Billie Jo is a fourteen year old girl growing up in Cimmaron County, Oklahoma.   The dust bowl is ruining her life. 
     Billie Jo has been known to play a fierce piano through out her life.  It's her on true love, but after a fatal accident with her hands and her mother dying, she doesn't know if she will ever play again.

 
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