Grant, Forrest, and the campaign that decided the Civil War
Hurst, Jack
2007
Recounts the Civil War battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, focusing on the opposing generals: Grant, in command of the Union forces and yet to win a battle, and his opponent, the equally untried but less fortunate Forrest.
Francis, an orphan who lives with his great-uncle in Powderhead, Tennessee, is called by God to be a prophet, which is against his will and causes much inner conflict.
Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver travel to Memphis at the request of anthropologist and skeptic Dr. Clyde Nunley to test Harper's unique ability to find dead people--a talent she acquired after being hit by lightning--only to find themselves under suspicion when Harper senses and finds the body of a child who went missing from Nashville eighteen months earlier.
Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.
Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.
At the beginning of seventh grade, Ariadne moves to a Tennessee town near a former farming community submerged under a man-made lake and meets the ghost of a girl from the past.
Relates the experiences of the author after she received an HIV positive diagnosis at the age of nineteen, discussing how she was alienated and refused to give up.
