The adventures of a young boy hired to shepherd a boxcar of farm animals from Kentucky to Canada.

A regular rolling Noah

Children's Books

Lyon, George Ella

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Bradbury Press

After sixteen-year-old Jules has her baby, Zoe, it doesn't matter anymore that her mother thinks she's a drama queen, or that her father left them years ago, or even that Zoe's father is gone, too. She and her baby make a family now; she doesn't need anyone else in the world except Zoe.Though it's tough being a new mom, balancing Zoe's needs with working at the Toyota factory and thinking about how to finish school, Jules is sure she'll figure it out. Still, she wonders, why can't anyone be happy for her and Zoe? And why does her mom refuse to believe that Zoe's real?

Holding On to Zoe

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

"Answering the child's questions, the mother tells how her great-grandparents used the road, then moves back to Civil War soldiers, earlier settlers . . . and finally . . . 'the mystery of the making place' . . . A lovely, beautifully crafted book . . . that makes an unusually effective response to a prototypical question."--Kirkus Review. A Publishers Weekly Year's Best Book. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.

Who came down that road? (Primary place)

Silver, Burdett, Ginn

Together

Reference

Houghton/Mifflin

Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family

Borrowed Children

Orchard Books

An alphabet book introducing the leaves from a variety of trees.

A B Cedar: An Alphabet of Trees

Parker, Tom

An illustrated poem about friendship and togetherness.

When Sumi's brother leaves for boarding school, her best friend moves away, her grandfather dies, and her mother withdraws into grief, Sumi finds herself facing the beginning of adolescence alone and afraid.

Red Rover, Red Rover

Come a Tide

A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.

A small oak basket containing a spool of thread intertwined with the family history, travels through four generations

Basket

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A regular rolling Noah

Holding On to Zoe

Who came down that road? (Primary place)

Together

Borrowed Children

A B Cedar: An Alphabet of Trees

Together

Red Rover, Red Rover

Come a Tide

Basket