Examines the issue of capital punishment in the United States by highlighting the case of Furman v. Georgia. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
Long-buried family secrets are finally revealed when Ginger Mason, an archaeologist in Italy, returns home to Georgia after the body of her mother Catherine, who committed suicide nearly twenty years earlier, is mysteriously exhumed.
Twelve-year-old Colin Wynn, inspired by the coming of electricity to his rural community in 1947, believes the modernization of Emery, Georgia signals the start of an age of social enlightenment that will even the score between the haves and have-nots who live on either side of Route 17.
Provides information about the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Georgia, and includes photographs, maps, sidebars, a time line, an almanac of state facts, and a gallery of famous Georgians.
Describes an archaeological dig off the coast of Georgia, the methods used to uncover artifacts there, and what was learned about a mission run there by the Spanish for the Guale Indians.
In 1947, his head filled with the advice and wisdom of his runaway father, thirteen-year-old Freddy moves his mother from their Georgia farm into town and takes on the challenge of holding his family together.
While Hollywood teenager Divine Matthews-Hardison is staying in Georgia with her devoutly Christian uncle and his family, she faces difficult choices about keeping secrets that might be harmful to others, and how--or whether--to accept her mother's boyfriend into her life.
