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Title: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse ISBN: 0-590-37125-8 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (590 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Mass read for countywide discussion
Comment: The city of El Dorado Kansas and Butler County, KS decided it would be a neat idea for the whole city/county to read this book at once and then have discussion groups about the book, so my wife brought home a copy and read it and asked me to read it.
I am an avid reader so I whipped through it in one sitting. It is written at about a 4th or 5th grade level, above it says 9 to 12 but we read The Hobbit in 6th grade when I was a kid.
"Out of the Dust" was a good story and it did give the reader a sense of what it was like in Oklahoma during the dust bowl. It is written as a series of free verse poetry, that at first was a bit odd but it worked.
It is a nice book but not for a serious reader, unless you have an hour or two to waste on a trip and don't want to haul around a large book.
I would recommend it to Jr. High kids. It is a bit much for anyone younger than that to understand and it is not compelling enough for anyone older than that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: I absolutely loved this book! I read it as a 5th grader and I enjoyed it very much! It is written in a very unique way. They almost look like poems. Even kids who don't like to read would enjoy this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Henry's review on Out of the Dust
Comment: Karen Hesse did a wonderful job on Out of the Dust. This was written in poetry form in a diary. Billie-Joe is a teenage girl who loves piano. In the summer ma is going to have a baby. There is a pail of kerosene on the oven and ma thinks it is water so she puts it in coffee and catches fire. Billie-Joe thinks it is water and pours it on Ma. Ma eventually dies and so does the baby she was carrying. Billie-Joe has to live with only her dad. It is hard to play the piano for Billie-Joe because her hands were badly burnt from the fire.
I reccomend this book to everybody in 5th grade and everybody above.
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Title: The Giver by Lois Lowry ISBN: 0440237688 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech ISBN: 0064405176 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery Medal Winner, 2000) by Christopher Paul Curtis ISBN: 0440413281 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park ISBN: 0440418518 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Holes by Louis Sachar ISBN: 0440414806 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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