- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Depressions, Poetry
"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Karen Hesse
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 227
- Publisher
- Listening Library (Audio), Tandem Library, Editorial Everest
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Spanish, English, German
- ISBN
- 9783125781801
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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.”
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