Jemmy

Jemmy by Hassler, Jon. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780449703021.

Since her Chippewa mother is dead, seventeen-year-old Jemmys alcoholic father has insisted that she quit school to care for her younger siblings. But on her way home on her last day of school, she gets caught in a fierce snowstorm, and is rescued by Otis and Ann Chapman, who have moved to rural Minnesota from the city. Otis is a well-known painter, and he sees in Jemmy the model he needs to complete a mural of the Maiden of Eagle Rock. Jemmy soon finds that the Chapmans have rescued her in more ways than one...and that theres a whole world outside of her familys dreary existence, a world she can conquer, if only she has the courage to fight....