A rhyming alphabet that names people, places, and things from Arkansas's history, culture, and natural world and provides background information on each one.
Left with her four brothers and sisters in the care of a cruel grandmother who resents their existence, an eleven-year-old girl struggles for survival in a poor Arkansas hill community.
Arly Hanks, chief of police in the town of Maggody, must use all her low-tech resourcefulness to quiet down the townfolks--already riled up over the installation of a computer lab at the new high school--when a dead body is discovered in an abandoned shack.
Takes readers on a tour of Arkansas, visiting fifteen attractions and describing the state's history, culture, and economy along the way; and includes unique facts, color maps and photos, the state song, and lists of state symbols, famous people, and further resources.
Autumn of 1986 in the Ozarks finds eleven-year-old April Grace adjusting to middle school, coping with her mother's difficult pregnancy, helping Isabel with the church play, and trying to figure out why the new boy at school will not leave her alone.
In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.
Provides information about the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Arkansas; and includes photographs, maps, sidebars, a time line, an almanac of state facts, and a gallery of famous Arkansans.
Orphaned Kat McBride, nearly seventeen, must leave California to live with her grandfather in small-town Arkansas, where she is drawn into a paranormal world of feuding werewolf clans.
In September 1957, a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a civil rights battleground when nine black students sought to enroll. This book tells their story and explains its importance in the broad context of the civil rights movement.
