georgia

Frankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding.

The three Lovejoy sisters are reunited in their hometown of Mulberry, Georgia when their mother dies, and vow to bury years of anger and pain along with their hateful parent.

Bob and Rex are promising high school baseball players, but their world turns upside down when their father dies suddenly while umpiring a softball game.

Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly bored until she hears about her older brother's wedding. He returns from Alaska to his Georgia, and Frankie decides she will go, uninvited, on the honeymoon.

As Ludell and Willie prepare to graduate from their high school in a small southern town, they experience events that alter their plans for the future.

Katie Takeshima, a Japanese American girl growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, is cheered by the optimism of her sister and best friend Lynn, but when Lynn becomes very ill, Katie struggles to find a way to keep her hopeful spirit alive within the family.

It is summer in Bog Hollow, and Austin, Ethan, Daryl, and Nellie are working together, despite the contentious relationship between Austin and Nellie, to prepare the new snake exhibit at the park's visitor center; but Austin and Nellie also have other things to worry about--Nellie's pet corn snake has escaped, and Austin's father and Nellie's mother are spending an awful lot of time together.

Twelve-year-old Nellie Tibbits and her herpetologist mother have been in Bog Hollow for a month, but most of the other children regard Nellie as a weird Northerner, however her pet corn snake wins the friendship of Daryl Tate, who is as obsessed with snakes as his grandmother is with stray cats, and when one of the cats disappears Nellie joins the Bog Hollow Boys in the search, and hatches a plan to help get Granny Tate's strays adopted.

Living in Georgia with her devoutly Christian uncle and his family, glamorous Hollywood teenager Divine Matthews-Hardison learns important lessons about marriage, relationships, and responsibility.

Spunky Leigh Ann Conners, eleven years old when the Civil War erupts, faces the biggest challenge of her life when she is arrested and charged as a traitor after placing a French flag on top of the family mill in Roswell, Georgia, in hopes of convincing the invading Yankees to spare the business.