Out of the Dust is a Newberry Medal winning series of poems that tell about Billy Jo Kelby and life in dustbowl Oklahoma during the Depression. After an accident in which her mother and newborn brother Franklin die and her hands are burned really bad, she can't play piano like before and is treated like an outcast. She feels like she doesn't belong and heads west on a train. Halfway there she turns back. The doctor says to keep playing piano, and her father marries again. Billie Jo the cripple did belong.
This is a good, sad story. I definately reccomend it.
Thanks to Grammy for lending Out of the Dust to me.
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Billy Jo huh? Sounds like Silly Snow. Or Willy Throw. Or Millie Know. Or Pilly Go. Or Wrath Bone. Or Kitten Chowder. Sometimes I think you are making these names up, honestly. Billy Jo? That has to be made up. Either that or it's real. But it's made up. Sort of like lice. Those things are made up. They don't exist. Lice are what adults call "comb overs."
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