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Summary: A Review from a Reader's Point of View
Review: Out of the dust was an interesting story. It was a tale of Billie Jo,a young girl living in the Oklahoma Panhandle during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Age. Billie jo through tramatic events and dust learns many of life's lessons. She grows from being a little girl with no past to a young woman with a sparkling future. My favorite part of the book was not just one chapter. I enjoyed how Ms. Hesse combined the terrible events and feelings of the Dust Bowl with a story of a young girl. I also enjoyed how the way the book is printed you can get second meanings out of the poems. An example of this is the poem about the piano, where Billie Joe tries explaining about all of the feeling she puts into playing. Her words are spaced portraying the different hands at the piano. One is high and playing the melody and the other is low and playing the harmony. The poem is deeper than it sounds and I understand how she feels because I attempt to play the piano also. Out of the Dust was a good book and it deserved to win the Newberry Award. The poems are deeper than the reader expects and that point alone makes the book a winner. The book also has the historic content of what life was like in the Dust Bowl Age and how people survived.
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Summary: Out of the dust
Review: This is a great historical document. This book captures the dramtic tension of this event. For example the part when Billie Jo (the main character) burns her hands and describe how difficult it is to survive during the dust storm. This book should be rated a 4 out of 5 because of how fun of a book it was to read. The author Karen Hesse wrote the book as if it were a diary. She also wrote it in a poem form. I hope you take the time to read this book. By: Mark Johnson
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Summary: Out of the dust
Review: This is a great historica document. bIt show the dramtic tension of this event. For example the part when Billie Jo (the main character) burns her hands and describe how difficult it is to survive during the dust storm. This book should be rated a 4 out of 5 because of how fun of a book it was to read. The author Karen Hesse wrote the book as if it were a diary. She also wrote it in a poem form. I hope you take the time to read this book. By: Mark Johnson
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Summary: Out of the Dust: A Review and More
Review: Out of the Dust was a good to great book. The book showed a good reality on how the Great Depression in the Dust Bowl was like. The book is about a young girl named Billie Jo. One accident changed her for the rest of her life. Without her mother at the age of 14, she is having a very hard time getting along with her father. She leaves home to run away from the dust bowl, but later finds out that the dust was apart of her, and made her who so was, and that what she was mad at her father for, she was doing to him. Finally, she returns home two days after she leaves her home, to find her father and another woman named Louise there to greet her and to live there lives together. but Billie Jo doesn't exactly accept Louise at first, for fear that she will lose her father to her.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: In our 8th grade Social Studies and L.A. classes we read this book. This book is very insiring because Billy Jo made it through the toughest years with out a mother. Her father and her got through the dust bowl without getting sick.The book was very good and when I started reading it I couldn't put it down. I would recommend this book to people who are learning about the great depression because it is easier to understand the great depression by reading this book than by reading a text book. The Great Depression is a very unhappy time and in the middel of it all Billy Jo and her family were struggling to keep money coming in off of the wheat that didn't grow. I gave this book 4 stars because it was extreamly interesting.
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Summary: Out Of The Dust
Review: I gave the book 4 stars because there is allot of detail about how the storm was and the different kinds of storms there were. And about the names that they came up with to name the storms.What I also liked about the type of book is that it described Billie JO's life. I can go along with what she had to put up with by living there like the bad storms. Because of the different kinds of storms that I've been in and the decisions I had to make like leaving that state that sec or not. But I was in a different state where there where storms like what they went through but not as badland the story made me think of what I would do if I was in that situation.
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Summary: Out Of The Dust
Review: Out of the DustOut of the Dust was a book that I wouldn't recommend to other people. This book is about a girl that lives in the dust bowl and what she goes through. In the book there is very little writing about the actual dust storms and how they were. I thought that when I was going to read this book that there would be more descriptive events and how the dust bowl came about and it would be more historical and I would learn more than I already knew. I thought that the reading went very slowly and there was not enough action in this book. I give this book 3 out of 5 star because I think that people with a historical background of this event would take it more personally and possibly enjoy it. I also give this book 3 out of 5 stars because I liked that the stories was written in pomes and how all the pomes come together to form one big story.
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Summary: A Brush With Dust
Review: OUT OF THE DUST by Karen Hesse, was an okay novel. The author incorperates a forteen year old's personal feelings, and also facts about the Geat Depression, and the Dustbowl. If I could change the book in any way, I would talk more about the depression and maybe less about the dust. My favorite part of the novel was when Billy-Jo wins third place at the Joyce City Competition, even when her hands were burned. It showed that she could do anything if she tried. I would reccomend this book for someone who is interested in history.
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Summary: Out of the dust
Review: This is a great historica document. It show the dramtic tension of this event. For example the part when Billie Jo (the main character) burns her hands and describe how difficult it is to survive during the dust storm. I hope you tat the time to read this book.
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Summary: Out of the Dust Review
Review: I think the book Out of the Dust was a well written book by Karen Hesse. It explained to me what the dust storm was actually like and how people had to live and suffer through all of it. On a 1-10 rating scale, I would give this book a 9. I would rate it a 9 because even though there was a lot of action, there were some bad parts to it. Like the part where Karen Hesse said that her mother "erupted" into flames.I think that word is a little dramatic. I think the part where Billie Jo tried to put out the flames with her hands was very brave. Even though her hands were severly burned and because of that her life had been changed forever. I really think this book was good and it gave me a better understanding of the Dust Bowl.
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