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Laskas, Gretchen Moran

The Miner's Daughter

250 pp. | Simon | February, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-1262-0 $15.99
(3) YA Sixteen-year-old Willa and her family wrestle through tough times in a Depression-era coal mining town. Willa becomes the hub of the family, running the household when her mother becomes ill and later working as a farm laborer. Laskas's evocation of time and place is engrossing.
Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

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