![]() ![]() Pol offers a number of solutions - everything from digging a well to trying a different type of crop - but Bayard stubbornly wants to stick to what he knows. He got a red-headed, freckle-faced, narrow-hipped girlīillie Jo's father, Bayard, is a World War 1 veteran turned wheat farmer, but the last few years the crop has been a lean one, to say the least. Billie's parents had always hoped for a boy, but her mother, Pol, struggled to get pregnant again after Billie's birth. In this verse novel set in the Oklahoma Panhandle during the Dust Bowl years, we meet Billie Jo Kelby. ![]() 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. ![]() To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. And the one thing that might make her feel better - playing the piano - is impossible with her wounded hands. A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. ![]()
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