Bibliograph

Child of the mountains, Marilyn Sue Shank

Type

Label

Child of the mountains, Marilyn Sue Shank

Language

eng

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Child of the mountains

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

795523574

Responsibility statement

Marilyn Sue Shank

Summary

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 unjustly, 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

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification