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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After their trailer home and all their belongings are burned, twelve-year-old Ember and her Wiccan family move to a lakeside campground where Ember's anguish over losing her dog, as well as her friendship with the boy she fears started the fire, stops her from making new friends and moving on.
2) Rock bottom
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Series
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English
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Ten years ago, a pregnant seventeen-year-old, Angela Joy Palladino, fled her hometown, Scotia, West Virginia, as a pariah. Over time, AJ succeeded in establishing herself as an environmental activist, dubbed "The People's Champion," only to be forced to retreat from the spotlight in the wake of a crushing media disaster.When AJ is offered a job with a lawyer who is crusading against mountaintop removal mining, she is torn. As a single mother of a...
3) Key of valor
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Series
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English
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Zoe is about to discover her true courageous spirit. She must find the key of valor--on the last of three dangerous quests that will force her to confront her darkest fears--or suffer immeasurable loss.
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Series
Hope River novels volume 2
Language
English
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The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.
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Shiloh quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--
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Language
English
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Jaimy Gordon's engrossing Lord of Misrule is a National Book Award winner. In the early 1970s, horse trainer Tommy Hansel cooks up a crafty get-rich-quick scheme. But his plans go awry when everyone at the Indian Mound Downs track seems to be on to his shenanigans. Complicating matters further is Tommy's tragic love, Maggie. She adores the horses in all their rundown glory and becomes fascinated by the misfits who populate the backwater West Virginia...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
11) Shiloh season
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Series
Shiloh quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and an uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring troub
Author
Series
Appalachian blessings volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"In small town West Virginia, 1954, one newcomer's special gift with food produces both gratitude and censure. Will Perla Long and her daughter find a home there?"--
Author
Series
Refined by love volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Rose McKay has just graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and is now making every effort to succeed in the pottery business in post-Civil War West Virginia, including taking advice from her handsome competitor--but has she put her trust in the wrong man?"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A teenager in a large family that lives in a trailer yearns for love, approval, an escape from endless chores, and a chance to make something of herself. When a good and decent man, seven years her senior, falls in love with her, she realizes marria
16) Witch catcher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Having just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by what the spooky woman really wants.
17) Dogwood
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Language
English
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Description
Told from multiple perspectives and laced with startling twists, Dogwood by acclaimed author Chris Fabry is an emotionally rich tale of suffering, sacrificial love, and redemption. A single visit to a West Virginia prison can't resolve the tragic pasts of convicted child-killer Will Hatfield and his former sweetheart Karin. While she struggles with haunting regrets, Will vows to wait for her, no matter how long it takes.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When union members arrive to organize their West Virginia coal mining town, fourteen-year-old Clarence Henderson, shunned for his cleft lip, and his neighbor Elizabeth Braxton narrate the changes in their own lives and in the lives of everyone in the
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books/Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers.
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