In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. in a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and...

This is the story of a mouse who gets swept away in a rainstorm while rescuing his wife's scarf and winds up stranded on a river island for a year. Abel is no ordinary mouse when it comes to adventure.