Dancing in Cadillac Light - Tapa dura

After Grandpa comes to live with them, 11-year-old tomboy Jaynell, called "Boy," discovers that he has befriended the Pickens, a poor family from the wrong side of the tracks, and when he dies, he leaves his house to the Pickens, which forces Jaynell to change her views on poverty forever, in a wonderful novel set in Texas in 1968. 17,500 first printing.