1986 Cynthia Rylant
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To Dick, for help
To Dawna and Diane, for friendship
To Gerry and Nate, for everything
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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This Aladdin Paperbacks edition May 2007
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Rylant, Cynthia.
A fine white dust.
Summary: The visit of the traveling Preacher Man to his small North Carolina town gives new impetus to thirteen-year-old Peter’s struggle to reconcile his own deeply felt religious belief with the beliefs and nonbeliefs of his family and friends.
ISBN-13: 978-0-698-84087-6 (hc)
ISBN-10: 0-689-84087-X (hc)
[1. Religious life—Fiction. 2. Conduct of life—Fiction.
3. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 4. Friendship—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R982fi 1986 [Fic] 86-1003
ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-4828-5 (pbk)
ISBN-10: 1-4169-4828-7 (pbk)
eISBN 978-0-689-84862-9