Hook Moon Night: Spooky Tales from the Georgia Mountains

The One Year Did You Know Devotions

Storytime: Listen Up, Pup!

Miami Gets It Straight (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

The Mending Summer

Letterland: Upper Umbrella in Volcano Valley (Letterland)

Something on the Hill

Not All Heroes

Winner of the Jefferson Cup Honor Book AwardTimes are hard in Depression-era Georgia mountain country. Even so, fourteen-year-old Halley Owenby, her younger brother, Robbie, and their parents, Jim and Kate, manage to get by until Jim dies suddenly in an accident, and Kate decides she and her children have no choice but to move in with her parents. Like her father, Halley has never cared for her grandparents. Her grandfather Franklin is a fire-and-brimstone fundamentalist preacher who runs a strict and joyless household. A miserly tyrant, he claims any money the women in his household earn. Even their mail he considers his to read first. Waiting for the Rapture, when Jesus will return, may suit her grandparents and many others of the same faith, but Halley wants more. She yearns for some control of her own life. She longs for an education, which she firmly believes would eventually allow choices. Little does she suspect that such dreams might actually come true.

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Hook Moon Night: Spooky Tales from the Georgia Mountains

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The One Year Did You Know Devotions

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Storytime: Listen Up, Pup!

Steve Smallman, 2012

Miami Gets It Straight (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Patricia C. Mckissack, 1999

The Mending Summer

Ali Standish, 2021

Letterland: Upper Umbrella in Volcano Valley (Letterland)

Stephanie Laslett, 1993

Something on the Hill

Sonia Sanchez, Jane Kohuth, 2024

Not All Heroes

Josephine Cameron, 2021