If you like to read books on the dirty dust bowl in free write poetry Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse will be perfect book for you. This book will teach you about how life was in the 1930s during the dirty dust bowl. This book is about Billy Jo and she loves to play the piano. In this story Billy Jo tells what she feels about the time.  She lives in Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Her Papa and Mama are expecting a baby. But a fire starts at her home because a pot of kerosene that mama thought was a pot of water. She pored the kerosene on the stove and one second later there was a fire. Her Mama gets severely burned and her hands get burned badly. Will the baby survive? Will Mama survive? Is Billy Jo ever going to be able to play the piano again? I’d like to tell you but I guess you’ll have to read the book to find out.

                        Out Of The Dust 

                   By. Karen Hesse

                   1997 copyright

                   By. Tasha Lechtenberg