A diamond in the dust
By: by Carla Joinson.
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Coal mines and mining -- Fiction.; Family life -- Fiction.; Self-realization -- Fiction.; Poverty -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Despite her mother's objections and the love of an older classmate, sixteen-year-old Katy is determined to find a better life for herself beyond her family's poverty and sorrow in the Illinois coal mining town where they live.