A diamond in the dust
by Carla Joinson · 2001
Despite her mother's objections and the love of an older classmate, sixteen-year-old Katy is determined to find a better life for herself beyond her family's poverty and sorrow in the Illinois coal mining town where they live.
Family lifeFictionSelf-realizationPovertyCoal mines and miningFamiliesJuvenile fictionChildren's fictionPoverty, fiction