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.

Jess Aarons ha entrenado todo el verano para ser el corredor más rápido de quinto grado. Y casi lo logra, de no ser por la niña nueva, Leslie Burke, que lo rebasa en la primera prueba. A pesar de esto, los dos se hacen muy buenos amigos y pasan los días en el bosque detrás de la casa de Leslie, donde han creado un reino encantado llamdo Tarabitia, y ellos se han nombrado la reina y el rey. Una mañana, Lesli decide ir sola a Terabitia y ocurre...

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.

"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together" -- With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister--and the family gas station. To keep a competitor at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father--fast. When a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity...

Eleven-year-old April Sloane has never set foot in a school before, and now that President Hoover and his wife are building a one-room schoolhouse in the hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains where April lives, she is eager to attend it. But these are the Depression years, and Mama, who has been grieving ever since the accidental death of her seven-year-old son, wants April to stay home and do the chores around their dilapidated farm. With her grandmother's...

Most people think that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954 meant that schools were integrated with deliberate speed. But the children of Prince Edward County located in Farmville, Virginia, who were prohibited from attending formal schools for five years knew differently, including Yolanda. Told by Yolanda Gladden herself, cowritten by Dr. Tamara Pizzoli and with illustrations by Keisha Morris, When the Schools Shut Down is a true account...