Child of the mountains / Shank, Marilyn Sue

Lidia is raised poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, her younger brother, BJ--who has cystic fibrosis--and her Gran in the early 1950s, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.

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.