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The miner's daughter / Gretchen Moran Laskas.

Laskas, Gretchen Moran. (Author).

Summary:

Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1416912622
  • ISBN: 9781416912620
  • Physical Description: vi, 250 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2007]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
850L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.5 9 113044.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.5 9.

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Subject:
Depressions > 1929 > West Virginia > Fiction.
Coal mines and mining > Fiction.
Families > West Virginia > Fiction.
Coal miners > Fiction.
Sixteen-year-old girls > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Teenagers > Fiction.
Teenage authors > Fiction.
Financial crises > Fiction.
Employees > Dismissal of > Fiction.
Sex role > Fiction.
Disguise > Fiction.
Poverty > Fiction.
Prejudices > Fiction.
Social classes and family > Fiction.
New Deal, 1933-1939 > 1933-1939 > Fiction.
Moving, Household > Fiction.
Moving to a new city > Fiction.
Teenagers and moving > Fiction.
Books and reading > Fiction.
Teenage boy/girl relations > Fiction.
Resilience (Personality trait) > Fiction.
Creative ability > Fiction.
Creativity in teenagers > Fiction.
Libraries > Fiction.
Small cities > West Virginia > Fiction.
Nineteen thirties > Fiction.
Gender roles.
West Virginia > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Arthurdale (W. Va.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
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Young adult fiction.

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  • 6 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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