mountain life

Presents Virginia Hamilton's novel "M. C. Higgins, the Great," in which fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love as a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills; and includes a selection of related stories, poems, and essays.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

Recalls the lure of the mountains that first draws a family to spend the summer there in Grandmother's house and brings them back year after year even when the children are grown and have children of their own.

Orphaned, fourteen-year-old Hambone accompanies the circuit-riding preacher, Old Blue Tilley, on his rounds high up in Ozark mountains and everywhere they go they find that Oxalee, Old Blue's sworn enemy, has been there before them.

Compares and contrasts the cultural geography of life in three mountain communities, in Kentucky, Peru, and China.

Rebellious and unhappy at being shipped off to live with strange kinfolk in the mountains of West Virginia, a young boy is drawn into an ancient conflict that moves back and forth in time.

When Fair Annie, a sheltered mountain girl, inadvertently strays into forbidden McFarr territory her life opens up to tragedy and to love.

When two sisters go to see their aunt, she tells them stories about her adventures as a young girl visiting her grandparents in the mountains.