Story of cousins Dillon Freeman and Rachel Honaker living in Blackberry Creek, West Virginia struggling against poverty, neglect, disaster, and oppression.
Freedom and justice--American style--are introduced to the Thirty Years War when a cosmic accident lands a portion of rural medieval Europe in Grantsville, West Virginia in the middle of mine worker Mike Stearn's sister's wedding.
Janine finds herself in the midst of a mother's worst nightmare when her eight-year-old daughter Sophie, a child who suffers from kidney disease, disappears in the woods of West Virginia while on a scouting trip.
Living with her grandfather on Muckwater Mountain in West Virginia, twelve-year-old Silver aggressively pursues her dream of having a dog by working to earn the money for one.
Chronicles Eleanor Roosevelt's efforts to help improve the standard of living for the people of a stretch of coal mining land in West Virginia who lived in dire poverty by creating a new self-sufficient community called Arthurdale.
Living with her grandfather on Muckwater Mountain in West Virginia, twelve-year-old Silver aggressively pursues her dream of having a dog by working to earn the money for one.