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: 9780590376198
• Author: Hesse, Karen
• Published: 1987 , Scholastic Inc
• Themes: Depression, Family, Hardship, Young adult
• Descriptors: Awards, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Newbery, Poetry, United States, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 227