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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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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05. Seller Inventory # G0439061261I3N00
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05. Seller Inventory # G0439061261I3N00
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 227 pages. Cover wornIn a series of poems, fifteen-year-old B illie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat fa rm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Seller Inventory # 1357c
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 227 pages. Cover worn.In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat f arm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Seller Inventory # 1373m