The Boston Globe, March 15th, 1998
In this puzzling year, in which "Titanic" threatens to sweep the Academy Awards, it is a comfort to find this year's deserving Newbery Award-winner, "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse. Neither a novel nor a book of poems, it is a rich, many-tuned book-length narrative in free verse about a girl's life in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. If this sounds ghastly, it isn't. If it sounds strange and new, it is. I resisted the book for its first 30 pages, because its flatness seemed to fall even below the usual prosey flatness of most contemporary free verse: flat as a pancake, as the dusty...
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