The Talk-Funny Girl

From the publisher: "A 2012 ALEX Award Winner. In one of the poorest parts of rural New Hampshire, teenage girls have been disappearing, snatched from back country roads, never to be seen alive again. Marjorie has been raised by parents so intentionally isolated from normal society that they have developed their own dialect, a kind of mountain hybrid of English. Marjorie is tormented by her classmates, who call her 'The Talk-funny girl,' but as the nearby factory town sinks deeper into economic ruin, her options for escape dwindle. But then, thanks to a loving aunt, Marjorie is hired by a man, himself a victim of abuse, who is building what he calls 'a cathedral,' right in the center of town."