"Children of the Dust." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 39 (September 1985). Short favorable review which praises the pace and story line of the novel.

Fireside, Bryna J. "Young Adult Books: A Response to 'Members of the Last Generation.'" Horn Book 62,1 (January/February 1986): 89-92. An article examining various young adult books about the nuclear threat. Fireside concludes that good, thoughtful books for teen-agers are being written, but few of them are novels. The brief discussion of Children of the Dust criticizes it for "accepting the inevitability of nuclear war"—probably an unfair criticism that is not necessarily proven by the novel's content—and for "playing on the worst fears of [the] young."

"Holden, Elizabeth Rhoda (Louise Lawrence)." In Contemporary Authors.

New Revision Series. Vol. 16. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. Reference work listing the author's published books and personal data, including quotations on her...