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

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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: The book out of the dust by; Karen Hesse was a great book, about a young girl who lives dearing the time of the dust boul. It tells about a girl and her life dearing the dust boul. This was a great book as a rating I give it a 4 because I didn't like the ending but becides that this book was great and I would recomend it to aneyone. In this book A girl named Billie Jo, she is a good kid and loves to play panio. This is a treat tought to her by her mother althoue she and her mother both play diffrent types of music. Billie Jo dose some amazing things that many people would never dream of doing. I would deffinatily read this book over and recmend it to many.

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Summary: "The Future is Turning to Dust"
Review: "The Future is Turning to Dust," at least that is what many people thought during the dust storm.This book is about a little girl living in the the dust storm, and what she did to survive. This book is filled with wonderful poetry and interesting stories about the little girl, Billie Jo. I liked the book overall, but I did not like the poetry form the story was in. It isn't that I don't like books, its just that I don't like poetry. I recommend this book to someone who likes poetry and Historical Fiction.

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Summary: Out of the dust preview
Review: I really liked this book "Out of the Dust" because it got me closer to history. On what I mean by that is not everyday people want to know what happend back then. Most people don't want to learn at all. What made me want to read this without a teacher telling me what to read when to read. This book gives feelings and a piece of history.

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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: The book , Out of the Dust is one of my favorites since I have read it in class. I really like how the author puts her descriptions in free write. It really makes the book very easy to get the hang of. When I read the first page , it was very catchy because of the wording and describing she does. The book gave me pretty deep thoughts like," What if I was Billie Jo?" and," What would I do in this situation?". At the end of the book I really wanted to know more on Billie Jo after the dust storm , if her hands healed , if Daddy's pond was finished , or how Louise was and if she joined the family. It was so good that I read it again , and again , then again. Now, I just want Karen Hesse to make a sequel of the book cause I want to know what happened to Billie Jo. Also , it would be nice to make a movie of it , that would be cool. Honestly , this book was awesome!

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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: I thought this book was really interesting because, it showed me what life was like in the Dust Bowl. I couldn't imagine how my family and I would ever surivive back then. Many people would say," That would never happen to me!" They think that just because it happened to Billy Jo's family that it can't happen to them. After Billy Jo's Maa died she talked alot about her in her writing. She said that when she came home from her piano she would think about her Ma saying, "I knew you could do it". I thought this book was a great book. Billy Jo described many good points throughtout the book. I gave this book four stars because I thougth it was really good and that my little brother would enjoy it.

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Summary: Out of the dust review
Review: My opinion on the book is that it gives a good description on what really happened in the "Dust Bowl." It gave the reader ideas of how people went along with life in depressive years of the Dust Bowl

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Summary: Out of the Dust Review
Review: I really liked the book Out Of the Dust! I gave this book 5 stars. I liked it because it was in poem form, and made it eaiser for me to read. I think the author did a great job in all of the details about everything Billie Joe went through during the Dust Bowl. It really told about how it was for people to live during the awful Dust Bowl. I really liked this book and would definatly recamend this to kids of all ages.

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Summary: Mike's Brockenshire's review of Out of the Dust
Review: Hello, I just finished reading Out of the dust I gave it 4 stars because I didn't like how it was in poem form. I prefer a book that is written like a regular chapter book. I think the book is good over all because I liked how Karen Hesse gave a great description of the history of the Dust Bowl. I think if someone that lives in Texas or Oklahoma they would remember the dust storm and how horrible it was.

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Summary: Wanting Out
Review: Billie Jo always seemed as if she wanted to get out of the dust. She even tried running away to a dust free place. But she came back to her father and to the dust because as she said the dust made her who she is. I would recommend this book to just about anybody because it is easy to read and understand what Billie Jo is talking about in this book. That is why I gave this book four stars. The reason why Out of the Dust didn't get five stars is because I didn't really understand what Billie was trying to explain in the passage "Migrants". Otherwise I would say this book is very good.

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Summary: Out of the Dust
Review: I think this book was interesting. It was a story of the many difficlties of the dust bowls from a young girls point of view. Many hardships and sorrows were shared between Billie Jo, her ma, and her pa. Although her pa wanted to get through the dust still standing. He was willing to risk everything just to get a good harvest.