Title: Little Audrey
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.
Subjects: Poor, Death, Family life, Fiction, Poverty, Country life, Coal miners, History, Families, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Country life, fiction, Family life, fiction, Death, fiction, Virginia, fiction
Places: Virginia
Time periods: 20th century