Nelda — Pat Edwards

Eleven-year-old Nelda and her family have their share of hard times during the Depression, but Nelda knows it is her destiny to be rich some day and when she becomes a companion to the elderly Miss Mattie May, she knows she's taken a step in the right direction.After a fortune teller predicts great wealth for Nelda, the daughter of migrant workers, Nelda learns that elderly Miss Mattie May Wynn, with whom Nelda is temporarily living, intends to leave her diamond ring to Nelda in her will