the name, age, and physical features of the main character.
Who is Billie Jo Kelby, a young 14 year old girl who is tall, slender, and freckly.
100
The state the book takes place in.
What is Oklahoma?
100
When Billie Jo performs in a talent show, the place that she comes in and what she receives
What is coming in 3rd and getting a dollar?
100
The form of writing the story is conveyed in.
What is poetry?
200
Who are Billie Jo's family members.
Who is her mother and father?
200
The nickname of the Oklahoma Panhandle.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
The reason that Billie Jo didn't play piano anymore after the fire.
What is her burnt hands and connection to her mother?
200
The shape the words typically form when the character is engaged in music.
What is piano?
300
How Billie Jo’s father behaves after the accident and death of his wife.
What is unresponsive and distant?
300
The time the book takes place in.
What is the Winter of 1934 to Fall of 1935?
300
The fate of Billie Jo's mother
What is death?
300
The ways that the story is told help show more of the main character.
Freebie. (Any reasoned answer qualifies)
400
The skill Billie Jo's mother possessed.
What is is a very talented piano player?
400
Drought, dust storms, starvation, and people leaving.
What is The occurrences during The Dust Bowl?
400
The fate of Billie Jo's hands after the fire.
What is burnt and scared?
400
The ways the author shows that the land forgives the family at the end of the book?
What is crops growing
500
The ideas Billie Jo realizes when she runs away.
What is Billie Jo realizes that she is trying to escape the dust, but that the dust is within her, and she then returns back to her home, and lives her rest of her life with the dust?
500
The town the story takes place in.
What is Joyce City?
500
The reason Billie Jo ran away.
What is to find a better life outside of the depression?
500
The way the phrase "Out of the Dust" and how it correlates to Billie Jo.