num_pages: 304
description: Callie LeRoux is choking on dust. It seeps through the cracks in the hotel that Callie and her mother run in Kansas. Its slowly filling her lungs. Callies begged her mother to leave their town like their neighbors have already done but her mother refuses. Shes waiting for Callies long-gone father to return.Just as the biggest dust storm in history sweeps through the Midwest Callie discovers her mothers long-kept secret. Callies not just mixed race  shes half fairy too. Now Callies fairy kin have found where shes been hidden and theyre coming for her. The only person Callie can trust may be Jack the charming ex-bootlegger she helped break out of jail.From the despair of the Dust Bowl to the hot jazz of Kansas City from dance marathons to train yards to the dangerous beauties of the fairy realm Sarah Zettel creates a world rooted equally in American history and in magic where two fairy clans war over a girl marked by prophecy.
language: English
title: Dust Girl
publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers