kentucky

A woman defends her children and writes a song as men hired by the coal company for which her husband works shoot bullets through the windows and walls in retaliation for his fight for the rights of workers.

Traces the life of Margaret Garner, a twenty-two-year-old slave in mid-nineteenth-century Kentucky, focusing on the nation-wide controversy that erupted when Margaret, recaptured after fleeing to Ohio, killed her young daughter rather than have the child returned to slavery.

In 1802 the Craley family set up a new home in Kentucky where they hope to find good land for farming.

Icy Sparks has spent most of her life being ridiculed because she suffers from Tourette Syndrome, but as she grows older, she teaches the people in her town how to accept people for who they are, not what they appear to be.

Presents a comprehensive biography of Daniel Boone that chronicles his childhood, family, and influence in the settlement of the lands west of the Appalachians.

Recreates the early life of the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.

In Kentucky in the 1960s, partly as revenge against her older sister for publicly embarrassing her, eleven-year-old Sassy decides to make the handsomest boy in the neighborhood her boyfriend, but first she has to find out what makes a boy like a girl, and how to know when he does.

Grandpa tells his family in 1827 about Daniel Boone's leadership in settling Kentucky.

Contains one hundred poems by award-winning American poet Wendell Berry, drawn from nine previous collections.