the book Paint the Wind, by Pam Munoz Ryan, contains some important events that make the story quite interesting.The character Maya,lives with her grandmother because her parents passed away. Maya has memories of her mother. Her mother gave her horse figures and she has a picture and Maya keeps them all in a shoebox. Later on, Mayas grandmother got a massive stroke and was rushed to the hospital. Maya goes on and gets an new family with a dog. The dog disgusted her because that want what she was used to.Maya was asleep. Then a guy came in. He was Mayas Great Uncle Fig. She got up and went to the kitchen to eat breakfast.