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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Award Winner. Out of the Dust won the Newberry Medal in 1997. The Newberry Medal is the most prestigious award for children’s fiction in the United States.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. Most editions of Out of the Dust feature a photograph of Lucille Burroughs on the cover. A man named Walker Evans photographed Lucille and her father, Floyd, to raise awareness about poverty in the South during the Great Depression. Unlike Billie Jo, Lucille lived in Alabama.