| BOOKS ON APPALACHIA |
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| Picture Books |
| TITILE & AUTHOR | TIME SETTING
OF BOOK | SUMMARY OF BOOK | TOPICS |
| Rylant Appalachia: Voices of Sleeping Birds |
Present |
Talks about the kinds of people and animals who live in Appalachia |
Dogs
Names |
| Rylant When I Was Young in the Mountains |
1950's |
A little girl talks about living in a coal mining community long ago. |
Country Store
Outhouses |
| Rylant The Relatives Came |
Present |
A family reunion begins when the relatives arrive from Virginia |
Families
Customs |
| Houston My Great Aunt Arizona |
Turn of the Century |
A young woman longs to travel but circumstances combine to make actual travel impossible. She becomes a teacher and travels with her students in her mind. |
Teachers
Travel
Imagination |
| Houston The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree |
1918 |
A mother keeps a promise her husband made to provide the perfect tree for the village's Christmas. Together she and her child fulfill the arduous task. |
Promises
Christmas
Customs |
| Hendershot In Coal Country |
1950s |
This is a nostalgic view of growing up in a coal mining town |
Mining
Families |
| Dionetti Coal Mining Peaches |
Early 20th Century |
Grandfather had many jobs, starting as a coal miner and later working on the Brooklyn Bridge |
Occupations
Values |
NOVELS
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| Lowry Rabble Starkey |
Present |
A mother and daughter become extremely involved with the household of the mother's employer. Mrs. Bigelow is mentally ill and nearly causes the death of her own son. |
Mental illness
Family
Mother /Daughter
Friendship
Single Parents |
| Paterson, Come Sing Jimmy Jo |
Present |
The youngest child of a family of country singers is left at home with his grandmother while the others are on tour. |
Country music
Families
Talent
Jealousy
Grandmothers |
| White, Sweet Creek Holler |
1948 |
Life in a coal mining town for a family after their coal mining father is murdered. |
Coal mining
Company Town
Murder
Single Parents |
| Caudill, Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charlie? |
Present |
An imaginative and non
conforming child has difficulty adjusting the rules of the Little School in the mountains. |
School
Imagination
Rules |
| Burch, Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain |
1930s | Ida Early is an eccentric but when she takes over the household of this motherless family, she brings love and life. |
Eccentrics
Prejudice |
| Burch, Christmas with Ida Early |
1930s |
Ida's contributions to the Christmas Pageant are unconventional to say the least |
Christmas
Eccentrics |
| Houston Littlejim |
1918 |
A boy attempts to earn his father's respect |
Fathers/Sons
Lumber
World War I |
| Naylor Shiloh |
Present |
A boy attempts to befriend an abused dog |
Dogs
Abuse |
| Rappaport Trouble at the Mines |
1898 |
This is a fictionalized account of the coal miner's strike in Arnot, PA |
Mining
Labor Unions |
| Reeder Moonshiner's Son |
1920s |
A boy is torn between family loyalty and the opinions of others including the law |
Prohibition
Moonshining |
