Gibbons, Faye

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.

Chronicles the expeditions and discoveries of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto, the first European to cross the Mississippi River.

Following her mother's separation from her alcoholic father in 1947, city-bred Maude must learn how to get along with her mother's relatives when they move to the mountains of northern Georgia.

The children from two mountain families about to be joined in a wedding change their minds about each other only after all of them together cooperate in a rescue.

Emma musters the courage to sing in public when she's joined by an old hound dog.

The children from two mountain families about to be joined in a wedding change their minds about each other only after they cooperate in a rescue.

A collection of eight hair-raising yarns told by mountain people in Georgia while sitting on their front porch many miles from the nearest electric lights and indoor plumbing.

When Mama gets behind the wheel of the new Model-T which her husband just drove into the yard of their Georgia mountain home, she proves that she can drive a car as well as the men of the family.

Two ten-year-old boys from rural Alabama, each with his own personal problems, become friends who face the vicissitudes of life together.