Frankie Author:J. Sydney Jones Into the life of the Hayes family comes the mysterious Frankie. Although Luke Hayes suspects some dark secret from her past, he is nevertheless attracted to her and soon both are thrust into the center of a coal miners strike with the teenagers becoming messengers for the union men. Accurate historical events centering on coal miners unrest in s... more »outhern Colorado in 1913 and 1914 form the background of this realistic coming-of-age novel.« less