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Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Charlotte is not a dog person but does not like that the rest of her family neglects their Saint Bernard puppy, and so with a lot of determination and a little sneakiness, she works on finding a good home for the gentle giant.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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A girl describes her family's annual visit with Mamaw and Papaw in West Virginia, then Abuela and Abuelo in Florida, especially the foods and cultural elements that make each kitchen unique.
4) Missing May
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
89 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
5) Free verse
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lot about science ... And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
8) Shiloh
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
144 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
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"They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on Brewster's Hill. They say her companion, Bloody Bones, has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming white in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again. Daniel doesn't believe the stories about the witch or her beast. He figures the kids on the bus are just trying to scare him, since he's new. But when his sister,...
10) Fault lines
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
In rural West Virginia, anti-fracking teen Viv discovers an ability to sense forests' energy, a power that becomes heightened the more she interacts with Dex, the new boy in town.
Since her aunt's death, Vivian (Viv) Spry is aching to figure out where she belongs. Her father has become emotionally distant, and her best friend has found a new sense of identity in her theater group. No one in her rural West Virginia town has time for an assertive,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
322 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
"Cutie Grackle is used to being different--she lives alone on a mountain with her feeble-minded uncle, and when she's not sucking pebbles to trick her stomach into feeling full, she's chatting with a weathered garden gnome for company. But having a flock of ravens follow you is more than just different. Cutie worries the birds are connected to the curse Uncle Horace tends to mutter about. And she's right. The ravens present her with a fortune from...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
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