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I think it should be a classic. Also She can no longer have some one else always taking care of her, so she learns to take care of herself.
They keping each other after a sad lost in their family. This novel is mainly from Billy Jo's side of the view, starring Billy Jo as an eleven year old girl who has to make money for her and pa.Although there are many other characters in some of the chapters, Billy Jo decribes them as if they were describing themselves.
This an outstanding novel about a girl and her father that have to live with each other during the dangurous dust storms. Billy Jo discovers that she can't always think about that past, and focous on the future.
For instance, Mad Dg is Billy Jo's only friend, he is always tring to help Billy and her pa to get money. She hated how he made her go into compentitions to win money, but she still loved him.
Billy Jo is one of the best, most outstanding character I have ever read about.I would recommend this book to any girl ages 8-12 and love historical fiction because they will love just like me.
Out of the Dust is Billy Jo's story of life with Daddy and Ma on their Oklahoma farm during the dust bowl. Billy Jo narrates her story in a series of free-verse poems dated as journal entries. Hers is a hard life even before a pail of kerosene ignites setting the homestead on fire, killing Billy Jo's mother, and maiming the narrator. This is a challenging book to read, but worth repeated reads as Hesse's poetry shares insight into the everyday dramas of everyday people during an epic era of American history.
I also abhorred depressing books when I was younger. Written as a collection of free-verse poems by a teenaged girl in the Oklahoma panhandle during the Depression, Out of the Dust is a masterpiece of historical fiction. The teenaged emotions are pure, and believable. Although I am artistic enough now to feel the gritty emotion and visualize the imagery which would have been impossible to communicate in mere prose, I am certain I would not have appreciated it as a child. As such, I think this book would be a fantastic supplement to an American History class. The imagery was so vivid that I formed a new understanding of the Dust Bowl.
This book would have been no different. It definitely deserves the Newbery Medal that it won in 1998. Fifteen years later, I still shudder at memories of reading The Red Pony, The Call of the Wild, and Where the Red Fern Grows when I was a young teen. I admit, I was a little skeptical about the free-verse, and only picked up the book late at night with the intention of tasting the first few pages. I read it in one sitting. I am also concerned that many youths would not understand the historical context of the Dust Bowl Depression era.
Reading such a book will help students visualize the tragic past instead of merely recounting the facts.
The book is written in nice,figurative language, but it is far too sad. Basically what happens in this story in the sad part is when 2 people accidentally make dangerous, careless mistakes, which lead to the killing of 2 other people. The book starts out like not such a bad story, but then suddenly it hits this spot with terrible sadness and frustration. Yet, it gives far too many details of how terribly some of the people in the story die. When I got to that part, I felt like not reading this book anymore. I can't believe this book received about ten awards.
This book is well written, and the only book my 9 year old has ever asked for.
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