Title: Hard times for Jake Smith
First published: 2004
Description: In 1935 Alabama, when twelve-year-old MaryJake is abandoned by her financially-strapped parents and told to walk to the house of unknown relatives, she dresses like a boy and joins the household of an old widow before discovering secrets about her own family.
Subjects: Depressions, Family, Abandoned children, Fiction, Disguise, History, Identity, Juvenile fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept), Families, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Boys, fiction
Places: Alabama
Time periods: 20th century, History
LC classification: PZ7.H37874 Har 2004