Little Audrey
By: Ruth White.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780374345808
Subjects: Country life -- Virginia -- Fiction.; Family life -- Virginia -- Fiction.; Coal miners -- Fiction.; Poverty -- Fiction.; Death -- Fiction.; Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
Notes: Ages 10 and up.