I read a book in the 5th grade so around 1972 (I think) about a girl named Queenie. I think she was a young teenager and she was poor and lived somewhere with a lot of dirt roads. I think it was during the Great Depression. She ate "poke sandwiches" or "poke biscuits" where she would poke her thumb into a biscuit and put jelly or honey and eat it after school. That's all I remember except that the book has stayed with me so I would like to read it again.
Queenie Peavey?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1990/07/08/the-story-of-a-bad-girl/49fea88b-2660-4db3-acd4-38d858338a92/?utm_term=.346b1553f165
Robert Burch: Queenie Peavy?