Literature Guide: Out of the Dust (Grades 4-8)

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Summary: Out Of The Dust
Review: Out Of The Dust by Karen Hesse is an excellent book about a girl named Billie Jo who lives with her mom and dad during the Dust Bowl. From the first page of the book I was hooked I had to keep reading.I enjoyed this book very much and reccomend it to everyone to read. On a scale from 1-10 I would give this book a 10.

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Summary: Out of The Dust
Review: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse is about a girl named Billie Jo and her family surviving the dust bowl. She does her best she can to help her and her family, by cleaning and not griping about the dust. Even though they dont like the dust, they are happy to be alive to go through the horrible situation.
I really like this book. It is a book I think everybody should read. I didn't think I would like this book, but it turned out I did. This book should be in the hands of every child who likes to read.

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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: I just finished this book and it was sad. I liked the way it was written in poem form and it was easy to read. I didn't like the way Billy Jo's brother died because her mother died from giving birth. She was burnt bad. I really didn't like that book that much. I would have thought that it would be easy to grow wheat in dust. I think this book is for little kids. If you like an diary book about someone's life you'll like this book.

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Summary: Out Of The Dust
Review: Out of the Dust is about a girl named Billie Jo and her father. Her mother dies bacaause she gets burned badly. Her father always wanted a little boy so that is why Billie Jo has a boy name. Her mother has a little boy named Franklin,but he dies at birth. She and her father have to go through several dust storms together, but they survive them all.

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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: I have recently read Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. This book is about a girl named Billie Joe. She lives during the Dust Bowl with her Ma and Pa. One day a bad thing happens to her ma. She is burned very badly. My opinion of this book is that it needed more exciting things.

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Summary: Maybe When You Need to be Sad...
Review: Now don't get me wrong, this is a very good book. It is written very well and is very beautiful. The only problem with this book is it is too sad. Their is so much sorrow in the world today, it is almost overwhelming to read this book.
I felt that I have enough sadness in my life, that this doesnt have to add to the wieght of it.
Maybe one day when the world is happy, and people dont know sadness, so they need it.
Maybe one day when people need to feel pain.
But not today.

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Summary: Dust Bore
Review: I gave Out of the Dust 3 ½ stars because I thought it could have been better. The tale of Billie Jo, growing up in the Dust Bowl and her life was really heart breaking; but the fact that it was written in blank verse poems made it boring. The plot was excellent and I thought it would have been much more moving if it had more descriptions that couldn't be reached by putting it in poem form. Many of the poems were really well written, but it was only a few out of 100. Also, the book was recommended for children ages 9-12.It should have been recommended for ages 7-10 for the vocabulary was elementary, and the plot was vary easy to follow. I did, however, like the way the book moved quickly. So I would recommend this book if you like poetry and a new style of telling a life story.

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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: The is about all the the dust storms that happened all the time in the Panhadle. The book was baseically about a 14 year old girl going through very rough times in her life living during the years of the Depression.The main characters were Billie Jo,Mr.Kelby,Mrs.Kelby,and her brother Franklin.What I liked best about is that it had so much drama that shocked me.The worst thing I didn't like about the book was that it was that it was so confusing.

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Summary: Alex's Book Reveiw
Review: I had a hard time reading this book becuase half of the book was hard to understand so I had to read some of the sentences again 3 or 4 times to understand what it said,pluse the way the book was written was'nt the wway Iread chapter books.
This book kept going on and on like a never ending story.
I'd only recommend this book to people who like the book "Sarah Plain and Tall."
So baciclly what I'm saying from what I just explained is I don't
like this book.

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Summary: Not Recomended
Review: I think tis book was a pretty boring book. I give it one star for historic facts.
This book is a slow going book. You get lost with the topic like 'is she talking about a lilak or an apple?'.
It's a book about a girl in the 1920's, living in the dust bowl.Billy Jo get's stuck in the middle of a disasterand can't play piano or see her ma anymore.