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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.
22) The lost cipher
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
xi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lucas' father has recently died in Afghanistan, and to help him cope, his grandmother sends him to Camp Kawani, a camp for kids who have lost a parent. While there, he hears about the local legend of Thomas Jefferson Beale. Beale supposedly hid a hoard of gold in the mountains 200 years before. The location is encrypted in a set of codes no one has ever been able to decipher. When Lucas and his newfound friends decide to track down the treasure,...
23) Lover's knot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
541 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the rich, evocative prose that earned high praise for WEDDING RING and ENDLESS CHAIN, Emilie Richards crafts the third tale in the Shenandoah Album series, resonant with the power of love and family ties
Confused about her troubled marriage, Kendra Taylor needs time to sort out her feelings. Retreating to an abandoned cabin left to her husband, Isaac, by the maternal grandmother he never knew, she is quickly welcomed into the rural community...
24) Little Audrey
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
233 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
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
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Skye's cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together?
31) Tanya's reunion
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 680L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
33) Wildflower heart
Author
Series
Wildflower house volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kara Hart was scarred by loss -- first the loss of her mother and now her husband. She feels broken, with no will to move forward, until her father does the unexpected: he moves to the Virginia countryside to restore an old Victorian mansion. Kara decides to go with him, telling herself that it will only be temporary. The huge house is neglected and derelict, but Kara discovers its breathtaking field of wildflowers and is stunned by their beauty....
34) Shadows
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
74 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
259 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, brother BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and her Gran, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As Esme introduces her stuffed animal collection that is alphabetically arranged from Alvin the aardvark to Zelda the zebra she also relates her family's military life and her father's deployment.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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" --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Author
Pub. Date
1951
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
William Styron's stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family's tragic spiral into destruction. First published to wide critical acclaim in 1951, Lie Down in Darkness centers on the Loftis family - Milton and Helen and their daughters, Peyton and Maudie. The story, told through a series of flashbacks on the day of Peyton's funeral, is a powerful depiction of a family doomed by its failure to forget and its inability to love. Written in...
40) My name is River
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
141 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
River Starling, adopted under mysterious circumstances, has lived most of her eleven years on her grandparents' Pennsylvania farm but after Gran suddenly decides they must move to Birdsong, West Virginia, River finds an unlikely new friend, learns about God's love, and begins to feel at home.