Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse · first published 1997
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"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ." A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart. This Newbery Award winning book relates t
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…cases you list, the publisher does have a say in that. If you want to put on a school play based on the book, you need to get permission from the author. (My high school put on an in-house adaptation of Out of the Dust, and we had to write Karen Hesse and get her okay to do so.) If you put the entirety of the book on your website so that readers of your negative review can refer back to it, the publisher can come after…
on “Ask HN: What’s the legality of web scraping?” ↗Good lord, suffer yourself to Belle Prater's Boy or Out of the Dust, and come back to me. Granted, that's just late 90s Newbury's, maybe they sucked less going forward. If I wasn't already reading Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum and Tolkien by that point, that kind of horseshit…
on “Dark Futures: What happens when literary novelists experiment with Sci-Fi” ↗