Literature Guide
Subtitle: Out of the Dust (Grades 4-8)
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9780439131124
First sentence: Billie Jo writes about a friend who is moving to California ("where the wind takes a rest sometimes"), about the wind, the sand, the dust, and her father's debts.