Author: Karen Hesse
Translator: Hee-ryong Boo
Publisher: Saenggak-gwa Neukkim
269 pages | 194*135mm
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About This Book
Like the Oklahoma dust bowl from which she came, 14-year-old narrator Billie Jo
writes in sparse, free-floating verse. In this compelling, immediate journal,
Billie Jo reveals the grim domestic realities of living during the years of
constant dust storms: That hopes--like the crops--blow away in the night like
skittering tumbleweeds. That trucks, tractors, even Billie Jo's beloved piano,
can suddenly be buried beneath drifts of dust. Perhaps swallowing all that grit
is what gives Billie Jo--our strong, endearing, rough-cut heroine--the stoic
courage to face the death of her mother after a hideous accident that also
leaves her piano-playing hands in pain and permanently scarred.
Meanwhile, Billie Jo's silent, windblown father is literally decaying with grief
and skin cancer before her very eyes. When she decides to flee the lingering
ghosts and dust of her homestead and jump a train west, she discovers a simple
but profound truth about herself and her plight. There are no tight, sentimental
endings here--just a steady ember of hope that brightens Karen Hesse's
exquisitely written and mournful tale. Hesse won the 1998 Newbery Award for this
elegantly crafted, gut-wrenching novel, and her fans won't want to miss The
Music of Dolphins or Letters from Rifka. (Ages 9 and older) --Gail Hudson
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