Child of the mountains
By: Marilyn Sue Shank
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780385740791; 9780375989292; 9780375989698
Subjects: Schools; History; Families; Secrets; Christian life; Self-reliance; Fiction
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 for BJ's murder, 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.