Trouble's child

By Mildred Pitts Walter

Subjects: Louisiana, fiction, Obstetrics, Juvenile fiction, Grandmothers, Fiction, Midwives, African Americans, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, African americans, fiction

Description: Martha longs to leave her island home off the Louisiana coast and go to high school where she can learn more than the ways of her midwife grandmother and perhaps someday broaden the lives of the superstitious villagers.