Child of the mountains
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Delacorte Press, [2012].
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
259 pages : map ; 22 cm
Status
Southside - Children's Juvenile
Fiction Shank, M
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Published
New York : Delacorte Press, [2012].
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
MG
Level 4.7, 9 Points
Level 4.7, 9 Points
Notes
Description
In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, brother BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and her Gran, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.
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Accelerated Reader AR,MG,4.7,9,151096.
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Christian life -- Fiction.
Christian life -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Family life -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Secrets -- Fiction.
Self-reliance -- Fiction.
Self-reliance -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- History -- 1951- -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- History -- Fiction.
Christian life -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Family life -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Secrets -- Fiction.
Self-reliance -- Fiction.
Self-reliance -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- History -- 1951- -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- History -- Fiction.