Out of the Dust This book is about a girl named Billie Jo Kelby and the struggles that she and her family had to go through during what is now called the Dust Bowl. Billie Jo Kelby is a tall, redheaded girl who has a passion for playing the piano. She is a part of a poor family of farmers that is struggling even more than normal because of the large amount of dust storms that are around the area. The storms were so bad that the wheat crop’s her father had taken loans out for were blown away. Around the middle of the Dust Bowl Billie Jo’s Pregnant mother was cooking breakfast when she mistakenly grabbed a can of kerosene thinking it was water and she threw it in the pan. This caused the house to catch on fire, leaving Billie Jo’s mother and
