content: The book "Out of the Dust" is decent but leaves out important descriptions of the main characters friends or enemies that form the shape of person that the main character will become. Most of what you know about Billie Jo is that she is long-legged, has freckles, and will eventually burn her hands badly. The book describes nothing but the family and even within the family the sense of character of the others is very vague and hard to understand why they did that. This book tells almost nothing Billie Jo does all day except for school and playing piano. The important part of this book is that as you read it you begin to understand what life would be like full of dust and with very little water. Overall this book is mostly a vague idea of what personal life would be like in the Dust Bowl.