Schwartz, Virginia Frances.

Messenger - New York : Holiday House, 2002. - 277 p. ; 21 cm.

Based on the lives of the author's mother and grandmother, tells the story of a widowed Croatian immigrant trying to keep her family together in the mining towns of Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.

ISBN: 0823417166

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Silver mines and mining -- Fiction.
Family life -- Ontario -- Fiction.
Single-parent families -- Fiction.