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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1998
Page
10
Karen Hesse wins the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust set in 1930s Oklahoma. She chose free verse to fit the sparse farm life and prepared six to nine months of research based on 1930s Oklahoma newspaper stories.
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s devastated the Plains as gigantic dust storms swept through western Kansas Oklahoma and parts of Texas New Mexico and Colorado. Long plowed grasses left the soil exposed causing mass migration as millions left farms for migrant work in California. The era brought extreme heat and choking dust with families losing homes and livelihoods and author Karen Hesse describing the suffocating conditions and daily hardships.
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