Other editions of book The Boarding House by Marcia Melton

A mining accident, not an uncommon tragedy in Butte, Montana’s copper mines in 1914, upsets 11-year-old Emmie Hynes’s world. With no help available from the mining company that tookEmmie's father’s life, her mother takes Emmie and her brother Conrad across the mountain to the small town of Philipsburg so she can eke out a living by operating a boarding house.

The lives of eleven-year-old Emmie Hynes and her twelve-year-old brother, Conrad are changed forever when a tragic mining accident kills their beloved Papa. Forced to bid a numb farewell to their home and friends in Butte, Montana, they move into a dilapidated boarding house in a small town across the mountains. When Mama finally gets the boarding house, shined up and running smoothly, and Emmie and Conrad are beginning make friends, have adventures, and fit into their new community, a financial crisis threatens them with homelessness. Join Emmie and Conrad in the tumultuous world flavored with political intrigue, the fight for women s suffrage, dangerous mining practices, and labor conflicts in 1914.