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
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Winner of the Newberry Medal ; Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award ; An ALA Notable Children's Book ; An ALA Best Book for Young Adults ; A school Library Journal 'Best Book of the Year' ; A Booklist 'Editor's Choice' ; A Publisher's Weekly 'Best Book of the Year'