Out Of The Dust by Karen Hesse

Author:Karen Hesse [Hesse, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Lifestyles - Farm Life & Ranch Life, Children: Grades 4-6, Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings, Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Historical, Juvenile Historical Fiction, Historical - United States - 20th Century
ISBN: 9780439771276
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 1997-10-01T07:00:00+00:00

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to them.

I wondered if my father would come back.

He blew in around six A.M.

It hurt, the sight of him

brown with dirt, his eyes as red as raw meat, his feet bruised from walking in worn shoes

stepping where he couldn't see on things that bit and cut into his flesh.

I tried to scare up something we could eat, but couldn't keep the table clear of dust.

Everything I set down for our breakfast was covered before we took a bite.

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Motherless

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If Ma could put her arm across my shoulder

sometime, or stroke back my hair, or sing me to sleep, making the soft sounds, the reassuring noises, that no matter how brittle and sharp life seemed, no matter how brittle and sharp she seemed, she was still my ma who loved me, then I think I wouldn't be so eager to go.

March 1935

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