Child of the mountains

Lydia Hawkins, a daughter of poverty living in the Appalachian Mountains, is sent to live with her uncle and aunt after her brother and grandmother die and her mother is unjustly jailed. Subjected to ridicule at her new school because of her homemade clothes, Appalachian accent, and her mother's incarceration, she is determined to overcome this and find a way to clear her mother's name.