arkansas

Poet Maya Angelou chronicles her early life, focusing on her childhood in 1930s rural Arkansas, including her rape at the age of five, her subsequent years of muteness, and the strength she gained from her grandmother and Mrs. Bertha Flowers, a respected African-American woman in her town.

Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.

With her mother in prison for killing her father, seventeen-year-old Jane seeks to escape her past and find self-reliance breeding rabbits on their Arkansas homestead.

A thirteen-year-old farm boy during World War II carries on private "wars" with his mother and a sadistic teacher.

Bookseller Claire Malloy, unsuccessful in her attempt to talk Emily Parchester down from the tree the retired teacher has camped out in to protest a developer's plan to clear cut the land, decides to investigate when the developer is murdered and his daughter, a teenager mother, is accused of the crime.

Presents the history, resources, famous citizens, and points of interest in the state nicknamed Land of Opportunity.

Turning fourteen in 1946 brings several unwanted changes for Tessa as her long-standing friendship with a black boy is threatened and her parents' separation forces her to choose between living with her mother in the city or staying with her father in the Arkansas woods and hunting for Indian relics.

Megan Berry, a Carol, Arkansas, high school student who can communicate with the Undead, must team up with her childhood friend Ethan to save homecoming from an army of flesh-hungry zombies.

Presents information about the state of Arkansas, its nickname, motto, and emblems.

When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.