Up Molasses Mountain
By: Julie Baker.
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Coal mines and mining -- Fiction.; People with disabilities -- Fiction.; Cleft lip -- Fiction.; Labor unions -- Fiction.; Prejudices -- Fiction.; West Virginia -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When union members arrive to organize their West Virginia coal mining town, fourteen-year-old Clarence Henderson, shunned for his cleft lip, and his neighbor Elizabeth Braxton narrate the changes in their own lives and in the lives of everyone in their community.