Birth
- If showing up at school to find a family living in your classroom isn't unusual enough, try showing up at school to find out that someone's having a baby in your classroom—especially if you're Billie Jo and have the emotions a baby being born stirs up. She sits outside the room, praying and listening for the baby's cry.
- Mrs. Williams has a baby girl, and Billie Jo marvels at how perfect she is, wearing the feed sack nightie Ma made.