mountain life

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

When her father has to leave their mountain home to go to work in the city one cold winter, a ten-year-old girl sees a special sign as she waits for his return on Christmas.

The children from two mountain families about to be joined in a wedding change their minds about each other only after all of them together cooperate in a rescue.

Describes the coming of age of Eugene Gant, his boyhood in North Carolina and his growing passion to experience life.

An overview of life past and present in the geographic region known as Appalachia.

Love blossoms and grows between a crippled girl and a troubled botanist who has abandoned turn-of-the-century Boston for a life in the southern Appalachians.

At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home in the summer of 1963, Annie and her family grieve over her newborn sister's death while she befriends a mountain woman with a secret.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

In the rural town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney struggles to deal with change as her daughter enters her teen years, growing more and more strong-willed, and Ave Maria embarks on a journey into her past that she never thought she would take.