Karen Hesse

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1) Out of the dust

Author

Hesse, Karen

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c1997

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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

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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.

2) A light in the storm: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin

Author

Hesse, Karen

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c1999

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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

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In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.

3) The cats in Krasinski Square

Author

Hesse, Karen

Publisher

Scholastic Press

Pub. Date

2004

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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.

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1) Out of the dust

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