Age Group: 12+ Years

Description:

Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo loves playing the piano, loves her mother, and loves her family's Oklahoma farm — until a terrible accident changes everything, leaving her mother gone and her own hands too hurt to play. As choking dust storms sweep across the Dust Bowl years, ripping apart farms and families, Billie Jo must somehow find her way back to hope, healing, and her father. Told in raw, powerful free verse, this Newbery Medal-winning novel is a moving story about grief, resilience, and forgiveness — a beautifully written journey through one of America's hardest chapters, both in history and in the heart.