Child of the Mountains
by Shank, Marilyn Sue
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AR Book Level
4.7
AR Points
9
Word Count
61,951
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
151096 EN
About this book
In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains with her widowed mother, brother, BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and Gran. When Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong.