Heese, Karen Out of the dust / Karen Heese. - New York : Scholastic, c1997. - 227 p. ; 19 cm. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. ISBN: 0590371258 Subjects--Topical Terms: Dust storms--Fiction.Farm life-Oklahoma--Fiction.Depressios--1929--Fiction.Poetry--Fiction.Oklahoma--History--20th century--Fiction.