mountain life

In letters throughout the year, Alexandra's grandmother describes the routines and celebrations that make up life in her little village in the mountains of Switzerland.

A woman and her family struggle to keep their dignity as they move from the hills of Kentucky to the chilling indifference of a big midwestern city.

During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.

This is the story about a boy during the Depression in the Ozarks, who achieved his heart's desire in the ownership of two red-bone coon hounds, and how he taught them all the tricks of hunting, and how they won the championship coon hunt.

In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.

A retelling of Johanna Spyri's classic tale, in which Heidi, an orphan, builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, but after she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's daughter, who is restricted to a wheelchair, Heidi's health begins to fail as her desire to return to her home in the mountains increases.

In 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves her comfortable home to teach in a one-room schoolhouse in an isolated area of the Great Smokies.

"Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, forebodingCastle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux..."--Front flap.