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.
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.
The author recounts his early life in the African-American community of a small West Virginia town in the Allegheny Mountains where the major social event was the annual mill picnic.
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.
