Wish You Well by David Baldacci

Baldacci searches his roots to tell a tale of twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal. Her father is killed in an auto accident that leaves his wife in a trauma-induced coma. Lou and her brother, Oz, and her mother are sent to live in the Appalachian Mountains with her great grandmother. Times in the 1940s are hard and Lou and Oz have to work on a farm with no electricity or running water. Lou and Oz are willing to work and are learning some of the greater lessons of life, one of them being "life isn't fair". I found this to be enthralling. Couldn't put it down until finished. A must read. Sandy Penton