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Summary: Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KNIRylant, Cynthia.
Summary: Every year at Christmas a rich man rides a train through Appalachia and throws gifts to the poor children who are waiting, in order to repay a debt he owes the people who live there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1997
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RYLHouston, Gloria.
Summary: Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1988
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HOUMills, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MILHenson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HensonCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HENHenson, 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 HENRichardson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RICAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: "Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento." --contraportada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021