Out of the Dust/Karen Hesse
Great Source, 2009, 240 pp.
Realistic- Fiction

Hearing the dust and wind hit the old white house was just devastating to hear. Fourteen year-old Billie-Joe is a young but an independent girl. After losing her mother and baby sister, a disastrous dust storm hits her town. Now Billie-Joe has a chance of has hope to bring her falling- apart family back together. What will it take to bring her family back together? What will she do?


This adventurous realistic- fiction book has its ups and downs but in the end it is powerful and meaningful. The weakness in this book is that the way Karen Hesse wrote it is hard to read but, easy to understand. The strengths in Out of the Dust are that she wrote really good context clues which makes it easy to understand. I found this book really interesting because no matter how hard Billie-Joe life’s gets, she puts it in the past and looks forward to her future. Out of the Dust is a very good book to recommend because it has a powerful meaning to it.


Out of the Dust is overall a great book, it leaves you not only happy but motivational.