west virginia

Homer Hickam chronicles the events that took place during his senior year in his hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia.

In 1948, while spending the summer with her aunt in West Virginia to find her family roots, Tilara begins visiting the "colored" old folks' home called McKendree, makes new friends, and learns to love herself.

The author recounts his early life in the African-American community of a small West Virginia town in the Allegheny Mountains where the major social event was the annual mill picnic.

Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.

Text and photographs from a living history village in West Virginia recreate the pioneer life of young people in Appalachia in the early nineteenth century.

Homer Hickam, the introspective son of a mine superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood, West Virginia forever, nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood in 1957.

A memoir in which Homer Hickam, author of "October Sky," recalls the summer of 1961 when he was called back to the coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia after a year of college to provide moral support for his father who had been accused of negligence in his role as mine superintendent.

Presents the story of Lemuel Chenoweth, a simple furniture builder, who won the contest to construct a bridge over the Tygart River in Philippi, Virginia.

A collection of poems that tell the story of Ludie, a poor woman in a coal-mining town in West Virginia, from her childhood to her adolescent years, and then through her married life into her old age.

Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.