Title: Child of the mountains
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.
Subjects: Schools, History, Families, Secrets, Christian life, Self-reliance, Fiction, Children's fiction, Schools, fiction, Christian life, fiction, Family, fiction, Self-reliance, fiction, West virginia, fiction
Places: West Virginia
Time periods: 1951-