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Henson, Heather.

Summary: A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HEN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Henson

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HEN

Henson, Heather.

Summary: A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--A librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2010

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFIC HEN

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Richardson

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC RIC

Mills, Lauren A.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MIL

Richardson, Kim Michele

2 holds on 8 copies

Summary: "In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIC

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Richardson

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: "Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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McCrumb, Sharyn

Summary: In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: When her parents are imprisoned, Honey picks up her mother's packhorse library route to deliver books in remote Appalachia. But the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren't keen to let a woman pave her own way.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RIC

Tekulve, Susan

Summary: In 1924, the derailment of a passing train buries 16-year-old Emma Palmisano's house in coal. Caleb, the railroad man who rescues Emma, marries her a week later and gifts her with 47 acres of Virginia farmland. Successive generations of Emma and Caleb's family endure and grow despite poverty and hardship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEK

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. But...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: Junia, a dedicated mule with an important job, assists in delivering books and reading material to people in the Kentucky hills and woods during the Great Depression.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2024

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