Title: A diamond in the dust
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Family life, Fiction, Self-realization, Poverty, Coal mines and mining, Families, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Poverty, fiction
LC classification: PZ7.J6622 Di 2001