A paranormal novel in which an eleven-year-old girl-stuck in grief over her mother's death-helps a ghost who's stuck on earth until she finds her daughter.

Stuck

Children's Books

Mushko, Becky

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Cedar Creek Publishing

Patches on the same quilt

Franklin Pub

Features a Study &amp; Discussion Guide on the following topics: LITERATURE - GEOGRAPHY - HISTORY - SCIENCE. Suitable for 4th-6th Grade students or as a Storytime selection for 1st-3rd Grades. (A popular story with Storytelling Guilds and regular feature in the Ferrum College Appalachian Lit Studies program.)

Ferradiddledumday: An Appalachian Version of Rumpelstiltskin

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Cedar Creek Pub

PATCHES ON THE SAME QUILT is a series of related stories told by members of six generations of a Franklin County, Virginia, family. A young boy's wish for a horse changes not only the direction of his own life but also the lives of his children, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. As his grandmother, the quilt-maker Gillie Anne, says, "We might not be cut from the same cloth, but we're all patches on the same quilt." Each character's story adds a patch to the pattern of interconnected lives.

Patches on the Same Quilt

Contemporary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A secret revealed, A mystery solved, A life forever changed. In 1972, seventeen-year-old Annie Caldwell, who has the “gift” of animal communication, wants to be normal, but she’ll settle for being unnoticed. Annie’s brother died in Vietnam, her mother is depressed, and her father drinks. Her only friend is elderly Aint Lulie—who lives in the same holler and who understands the gift because she has one, too: “The first daughter in ever’ other generation has always been blest with a gift, though some think it a curse.” As they sit by the fireplace in the evenings and tell each other stories, Aint Lulie shares family history with Annie, including a relative’s mysterious death and how some of their ancestors came to settle in the area: “There’s always been them that go and them that stay in ever’ generation.” When a local girl goes missing, Aint Lulie’s and Annie’s gifts can help solve the mystery—but if Annie speaks up, she can no longer go unnoticed. THEM THAT GO is an Appalachian coming-of-age novel rich in tradition, superstition, family ties, and secrets.

Them That Go

Genre Fiction

Fifteen down-home stories featuring resolute women. One woman’s surprise gift for her church produces an unexpected result, another woman gets advance warning of an ice storm, another gets down and dirty at the grocery store, another finds a mystery in library books. Add a few mules, a pig in panties, a kiddie beauty pageant, an escaped convict, a Thanksgiving gone wrong, a couple of unexpected Christmas celebrations, a wannabe best-selling author, and a jar of ashes—and you have MIRACLE OF THE CONCRETE JESUS AND OTHER STORIES. Recycled from previous publication in e-books and print, these (mostly) prize-winning stories are “Miracle of the Concrete Jesus,” “Angel on Ice,” “Down and Dirty,” “The Mystery of Emmaline Carter,” “Insult to Injury,” “Fixing the Blame,” “Eye of the Beholder,” “Query Letter From Helen,” “The Girl Who Raced Mules,” “Chosen Child,” “Burning Bridges,” “You Ain’t Buck Nekkid,” “The Best ’Un Yet,” “Phoenix Rising,” and “Rat-Killing.”

Miracle of the Concrete Jesus and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

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