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Author
Series
Mountain volume 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
2) Heidi
Author
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical backround of the story.
4) Old Ben
Author
Publisher
Jesse Stuart Foundation
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When young Shan befriends a bull black snake, his Kentucky mountain family decides that perhaps the only good snake isn't a dead snake after all.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The children from two mountain families about to be joined in a wedding change their minds about each other only after all of them together cooperate in a rescue.
7) Scouts
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The summer before seventh grade, five best friends sneak out to watch a meteor shower, but soon find themselves on the run from a violent mountain clan.
10) Dovey Coe
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
11) Moonshiner's son
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Aladdin paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
As he works with his father making moonshine in the remote hills of Virginia during Prohibition, twelve-year-old Tom learns about hard work and honesty.
Author
Publisher
Dell Laurel Leaf
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
135, 14 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summer begins descending into mental illness.
13) Hill Hawk Hattie
Author
Series
Hill Hawk Hattie volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on a adventure-filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
105 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jennalee is jealous when a slow-thinking black man arrives in her Smoky Mountains community and claims to be the son of Uncle Beau, the owner of the general store and Jennalee's only friend.
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