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Peeling Potatoes is the story of five-year-old Katie who lives on the edge of the coal mines in 1914. Katie is trying to be brave. She is already being asked to do difficult things to help her widowed mother and four siblings survive in a gritty time and place where poverty and never having enough are facts of life. They grow most of their own food, share their house with miners who board there, and Mama still needs to work during the day as a farm laborer. One by one the older children are leaving school to work for pay. What can five-year-old Katie do to help?
Katie's Story interweaves accurate cultural and historical information with a taste of what childhood was like for children of eastern European immigrants around the early 20th Century coal mines. Katie's wholesome innocence and bravery foster a sense of gratitude and faith, lessons that are still relevant to young lives today. Seeing the world through her perspective can change yours.