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Summary: Out of The Dust
Review: I thought that Out of the Dust was a very interesting and descriptive book. It really shows you how harsh and physically taxing the life of a dust bowl farming family truly was. Karen Hesse shows the depressing mood in the 1930's very well through her descriptive writing. I have read the book twice and I enjoyed reading it both times. I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to all readers.
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Summary: I Really Enjoyed this Book!
Review: Out of the Dust is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Bille Jo and all the hardships she faces while living on the Oklahoma Panhandle during the Great Depression. The most terrible of all the hardships that Bille Jo faces in the novel is her mother dying in a tragic accident. Billie Jo feels that she is partially to blame for the accident which makes it all the more depressing. I love the way Karen Hesse writes this novel in free verse poem. I feel it gave me a better perspective of Billie Jo and that it was much more emotional then it would have been if it had just been written like a regular novel. I also feel that due to the fact that the novel was written in free verse poetry, it was much more descriptive than a regular novel. Sometimes it got so so descriptive I actually felt like I was right there next to Billie Jo. It completly blew me away. This book reminded me not to take things for granted and also to be thankful for what I have. I really enjoyed this book. I felt it was extremly well written and that it definently deserved the Newbery Award. However, due to the fact that this book is extremly depressing I would only recommend it to people 10+. If you enjoyed reading this book, I would also recommend that you read Letters from Rifka and The Music of The Dolphins, two other books written by Karen Hesse.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: Out of the Dust, a novel by Karen Hesse, is a story explaining the Dust Bowl Era. I found this book to be interesting and informative, but also kind of entertaining. Out of the Dust takes the reader through the life of a young girl , Billie Jo, growing up in the dust Bowl. Bille Jo's life is good enough, aside from the terrible dust storms ravaging the land and the peoples' health, until a terrible accident turns her life upside down. After the accident, Billie Jo's relationship with her fater is ruined, along with her ability to play her beloved piano. Also, her dreams for the future, like in a quote from the book, are "drying up and blowing away with the dust." Will BIllie Jo's life ever get back to normal? Will she ever be able to get away from the dust that she despises? Read this book and find out.I enjoyed reading this book, and on a scale from 1 to 10, I would give it an 8. It was very interesting. Before reading this story, I knew nothing of the Dust Bowl Era. When I was finished, I felt like an expert! The one thing i didn't like about Out of the Dust was that it was written in verse. This, to me, was kind of annoying, although it did make the reading more meaningful. With the story being written this way, Billie Jo's feelings were easier to relate with, and, in some parts, I actually felt like I was part of the book. All in all, I think Out of the Dust was a very good, well written, and informative account of life in the Dust Bowl.
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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: The story starts out with Billie Jo living in a little Panhackle shack with her mom and her dad her mom is pregnant with her little brother. Billie Jo is a 13 year old that has checks like bycicle handles and a hunger for playing fierce piano and a fondness for apples. When an accident happens between Billie Jo and her family her life could be changed forever. Billie Jo's hands changed when they get burned and could totally change her life with her piano.
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Summary: Out of the Dust: A Review and More
Review: I think the book, Out of the Dust was a good to great book. It leads through Billie Jo's life in the dust bowl and how she felt and the ways that she suffered through those two years. When the accident happened between Billie Jo and her mother, it changed Billie Jo for ever. She no longer could play the piano, and her hands were scared for life, where they would peel and crack untill they were blistered again and again. At the end of the book, Billie Jo's father finds another woman to love, and at first, she doesn't really appreciate her, but tords the very end, she learns to like her, and can't wait untill she finally stays for good...
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Summary: Out Of The Dust
Review: In our 8th grade Social Studies and L.A. classes we read this book. The book helped me learn more about the dust bowl without having to read it out of a text book.The book is very emotional because the time of the dust bowl and great depression was a time of worry and sorrow. The book was also quite inspiring because Billy Jo got through alot that most people wouldn't have. She grew up without her her mom and she lived with her father who was impossible to talk to. Through her life she managed to live healthy and avoid dust pneumonia. The storm dragged on and on and once it stopped there were people that regret moving away. If I lived there I would not have moved because that was my home. Overall the book was excellent.
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Summary: Out of the Dust ....MY WAY
Review: I gave the book 4 stars because i enjoyed it, but there were some things i didn't like. Some things i liked were when they they explained about the town and her life. One thing i didn't like was whenfamilies were forced to leave their homes that they had spent their life savings. and sometimes it went beyond money, they put blood sweat and tears into their crops, homes and famlies. I recommend anyone who likes to read to read this.
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Summary: Out of the Dust review from Iroquios middle school
Review: The book out of the Dust is a novel by karen Hesse. This book is about a girl named Billie Jo and her family. Through this book Bille Jo explanes what it is like living in the dust bowl.This book teaches you alot about how the life on a farm during the 1920`s and 30`s in the panhandle during the dust bowl. Even though this book is fiction there is alot true facts in it. The author did alot reaserch to get the facts.I really like that it is written in poem form. It makes the read alot faster and more interesting.I real like the the sections winter of 1934,summer of 1935 and autumn1935. I really dont like the summer of 1934.Overall this book is pretty good.
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Summary: Out of Dust
Review: I think the book is a good historical document. The reason it is so good, the book shows what it is like to live during the dust bowl. The author Karen Hesse uses very descriptive words to catch the dramatic tension of this event. The part that relats to that is when Billie Jo burns her hands and shows how hard it was to survive during the dust storm with that kind of injury. I also enjoyed the way she wrote the story. She worte the book in diary form. She worte in small poems. It is a quick and easy book to read.
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Summary: Out Of The Dust Review
Review: I liked the book Out Of The Dust. I never knew such a thing as the dust bowl happened untill we discussed it in clsss. It was sad learning that people got dust pnemonia and died. I'd give this book a 9 out of a scale of 10. The reason i would give this book a 9 is because it was very exciting. Also because i liked learning about the dust bowl by reading this book because i do not like history and by reading this book it made me understand this event in history better.
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