Billie Jo age 14. lived with her ma and Daddy in the panhandle of Oklahoma, during one of the hardest times in American History.
We will struggle with her through her sorrows, disappointments, and the never ending dust, and drought.
Her Daddy worked his wheat very hard hoping to have a good harvest and the end of the season. Many times the harvest was lost due to the dust and no rain.
Billie Jo watched her friends and her family leave the panhandle to search for a better place to live, only to find the same, no work. dust, and drought.
Billie Jo loved to play the piano, until there was a accident , and her hands were damaged.
One day when the children arrived at school, they had to dig out 2 feet of dust to get to their desks.
Billy Jo began thinking of that train that went through the panhandle heading west. One night she decided that she had to get out of the dust.... She walked through the calm night under the stars and headed to where the train stops long enough for a long legged girl to latch on and climb into the box car headed West.
Did she climb into the box car, where she could get Out of the DUST?
by Abi Chase
(from Nancy Keane's booktalking course)
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