Minna's patchwork coat by Mills, Lauren A. 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2015)

BTSB #: 647359 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
F&P: S

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Coats - Fiction Quilting - Fiction Family night - West Virginia - Fiction Community life - West Virginia - Fiction School stories West Virginia - History|yTo 1950 - Fiction Appalachian Region - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.

Treasure of Way Down Deep by White, Ruth 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013)

BTSB #: 940849 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 850

Genres: Historical Fiction Animals

Subjects: Community life - West Virginia - Fiction Boardinghouses - Fiction Buried treasure - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Orphans - Fiction West Virginia - History|y1951- - Fiction

Summary: In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders.