There are so many factual points that are made within this fictional book. The first history lesson that is shown is the little girl on the cover of the book is real, she was an actual person who lived during the Dust Bowl. Her name wasn’t Billy Joe, but she did actually live and go through the hardships of the 1930’s. On page 170 in the book, Billy Joe’s journal entry talks about a man named James Kingsbury who came to Joyce City wanting to take photos of the drought and the dust storms this was the man who took a bunch of the pictures from the dust
There are so many factual points that are made within this fictional book. The first history lesson that is shown is the little girl on the cover of the book is real, she was an actual person who lived during the Dust Bowl. Her name wasn’t Billy Joe, but she did actually live and go through the hardships of the 1930’s. On page 170 in the book, Billy Joe’s journal entry talks about a man named James Kingsbury who came to Joyce City wanting to take photos of the drought and the dust storms this was the man who took a bunch of the pictures from the dust