Faye Gibbons
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sammy and Grandpa are riding around telling the entire Tyler Cut community of the early arrival of the first train to travel through the Georgia mountains when it looks like they might miss the long-anticipated event.
2) Halley
Author
Language
English
Description
Times are hard in Depression-era Georgia mountain country. Even so, fourteen-year-old Halley Owenby, her younger brother, Robbie, and their parents, Jim and Kate, manage to get by until Jim dies suddenly in an accident, and Kate decides she and her children have no choice but to move in with her parents. Like her father, Halley has never cared for her grandparents. Her grandfather Franklin is a fire-and-brimstone fundamentalist preacher who runs a...