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• Author: Karen Hesse
• Format: Book

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  Night Job

  By Karen Hesse, G. Brian Karas (Illustrator)

  A boy spends the night cleaning the school with his father. This is a tender and joyful look at work and time spent together.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Younger
  • ISBN: 9780763662387
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  Out of the Dust

  By Karen Hesse

  Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates how her mother dies after an accident with burning kerosene. Blaming both herself and her father, she is unable to express herself through her piano playing because of the burns that scar her hands. She leaves but quickly returns to her home “of dust” and she realizes how much a part of her it is.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1998 (Medal Winner)
  • Older
  • ISBN: (0-590-36080-9)