Article: Laskas, Gretchen Moran. The miner's daughter.(Young adult review)(Book review)

LASKAS, Gretchen Moran. The miner's daughter. Simon & Schuster. 247p. c2007. 1-4169-1262-2. $15.99. JS

Laskas is an 8th-generation West Virginian and she was inspired by her own family's history when writing about Willa, the miner's daughter. The story is set in the year that Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected, during the height of the Great Depression. We may know something about the Dust Bowl, soup lines, and other aspects of that terrible time, but perhaps we know little about the coal miners of West Virginia and how they survived when the mines were closed. Of course, it wasn't just the Depression that made their lives so desperate.

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