Commentary On Out Of The Dust By Karen Hesse

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Hey there reader! The book that I am reading is titled Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. This is a historical fiction book. I am going to tell you some important events that had happened so far. Key parts to remember that Bille Jo is a fourteen year old girl living is Oklahoma, year 1934-35 during the Great Depression, so she is very poor.

The first large event in the book so far is the largest dust storm. The storm contains speeding winds and the soil there is dry, so it blows around sand and dust. The storm comes and out goes all the crops, swept away by the wind. Because the dust is always blowing around, it makes everyone and everything is coated with dust.

After the dust storm, comes the first rain in a while. The people in the town

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