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.
- ISBN10 0803725116
- ISBN13 9780803725119
- Publish Date 1 April 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint E P Dutton & Co Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English