Meggie Blue and her brother David, mom and Grampa never stay in one place for very long. Someone always finds out their secret and then they have to leave...again. This time they land in Fashion City where anyone will tell you, "You'll like it here (everybody does)" and they really do. The reason...
It was in the Teen section, but it is really appropriate for tweens or even younger. It is a dystopian story told from the viewpoint of aliens trying to integrate into American society. It is a very quick read and repeats most of the basic themes of many dystopian novels, but at a 11 or 12 year o...
Nice quick read. Sad story but so true of so many families. Mine included. Not coal mining, but my grandmother had to raise her 5 children on her own after her husband passed away in the war. These women were so much stronger than most of the women you see today. It was such a different time for ...
April Garnet, named for a month like her absentee father, August, is left with her father's sister whom Garnet has never met. This is a new life in 1956 for Garnet with a telephone, television, and a nice home to live. Aunt June welcomes Garnet to the family but Aunt June has terminal cancer and ...
I listened to this on CD by a wonderful narrator and I think that added to my enjoyment. This is a sweet and painful story of a young West Virginia girl's experience through her high school years--living with her mother, stepfather and 3 half siblings in a "holler" in mining country. Now that d...
"Around 5:00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning in October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth."This was wonderful. Two cousins brought together by tough circumstances: Woodrow's mother, Belle Prater, has disappeared from their home in a Virginia holler, and he com...