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.
Provides information about the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of West Virginia, and includes photographs, maps, sidebars, a time line, an almanac of state facts, and a gallery of famous West Virginians.
The world ended on Halloween, but it was brought back to life by The Game. Brothers Michael and Patrick play the game at the guidance of the Game Master, searching for survivors of the apocalypse by day and fighting off the zombie-like Bellows creatures at night. When they finally find other survivors, Michael is worried that they will not play by the Game Master's rules, and so threaten his beloved little brother's life.
Lydia Hawkins, a daughter of poverty living in the Appalachian Mountains, is sent to live with her uncle and aunt after her brother and grandmother die and her mother is unjustly jailed. Subjected to ridicule at her new school because of her homemade clothes, Appalachian accent, and her mother's incarceration, she is determined to overcome this and find a way to clear her mother's name.
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 their community.
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
