west virginia

In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders.

"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--.

"In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck's father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from her accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia, and destined, in her own opinion, to go completely mad with boredom"--Jacket flap.

Chronicles the contentious, protracted, and deadly labor struggle between powerful corporations and 50,000 mine workers, their families, and advocates such as Mother Jones for unionization and civil rights in West Virginia during the early 1900s.

"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh, are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--Provided by publisher.

Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.

Rocket boy Homer Hickam returns home triumphantly from his freshman year at college. Unfortunately, his high-flown fantasies are punctured by family problems, and Homer is compelled to enter the mines he so fervently hates.

A picture book adaptation of John Denver's song "Take Me Home, Country Roads," in which carloads of people converge from around the country on their West Virginia home for a family reunion. Includes background on the song and Denver's life; the song's score; and the song itself, sung by Denver, on CD.