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Billie Jo is born (pg. 3)
August 1920 -
Mr. Noble and Mr. Romney are betting who can kill the most rabbits (pg. 6)
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Livie moves away (pg. 8)
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Billie Jo performs at birthday ball (pg. 15)
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Daddy's birthday (pg. 17)
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A little bit of rain (pg. 23)
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Daddy might take a loan from Roosevelt (pg. 26)
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Billie Jo took the state tests (pg. 30)
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Huge dust storm is happening (pg. 31)
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Banks close; money come back (pg. 38)
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One fourth of wheat is lost (pg. 39)
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Ma and Daddy argue about crops (pg. 40)
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Billie Jo hears of Madame Butterfly (pg. 42)
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Apple blossoms grow on Ma's trees. (pg. 43)
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Apple blossoms grow into hard green balls (pg. 45)
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Dust storm then hard rain (pg. 46)
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Wheat that managed to grow harvested (pg. 48)
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Billie Jo earns a little money (pg. 49)
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It rains, only three quarters of an inch (pg. 55)
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Ma and Billie Jo get burned by the kerosene (og. 60)
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Billie Jo has a nightmare about the dust and the burns (pg. 63)
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Daddy spends the emergency money on alcohol (pg. 67)
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Billie Jo's brother died, so did Ma. pgs. 69-70
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The grasshoppers eat Ma's apple trees (pg. 68)
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Billie Jo's birthday (pg. 74)
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Billie Jo compares volcano eruption in Kilauea to a dust storm (pg. 79)
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Mrs. Brown's plant blooms in the dust then dies (pgs. 81-82)
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Daddy got a job at Wireless Power (pg. 87)
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It almost rained (pg. 88)
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Billie-Jo wasn't invited to play basketball for once (pg. 89)
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It snowed real snow! (pg. 90)
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Billie-Jo plays piano with Arlet (pg. 91)
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Billie-Jo has a crush on Mad Dog (pg. 91)
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Mad Dog tells his tale (pg. 93)
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There is an art exhibit in the courthouse (pg. 94)
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Rain (pg. 104)
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Haydon P. Nye dies (pg.107)
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Ma "haunts" Billie-Jo (pg. 110)
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Birthday ball (pg. 115)
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Joe De La Flor's cows are killed (pg. 102)
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State tests again (pg. 99)
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Government sends food (pg. 117)
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"we came in to find a family no one knew." (pg. 119)
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A baby is born (pg. 123)
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Billie-Jo plays at the talent show (pg. 131)
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Billie-Jo plays at Arley's show (pg. 135)
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Snow (pg. 137)
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Father goes to night school (pg. 138)
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Pete Guymon dies (pg. 140)
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Dust storm (pg. 142)
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Rains everywhere but where Billie-Jo lives (pg. 142)
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Billie-Jo wants to go away from the dust (pg. 148)
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Hayden P. Nye's wife dies (pg. 149)
