Appalachia Chart of Related Books
| BOOKS ON APPALACHIA | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| 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 |
| FOLKTALES | ||
|---|---|---|
| TITLE AND AUTHOR | SUMMARY | MOTIFS |
| Chase The Jack Tales | Many of these stories are variants of more commonly known folk tales. All of them surround the character of Jack, the trickster. | Tricksters Little one outwitting big ones |
| Chase Grandfather Tales | An anthology of folktales from the Appalachians | |
| Moser Polly Vaughn | A traditional ballad is the inspiration for this story of feuding mountain families | Feuds Romance |
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