west virginia

After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

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.

When her last family member dies in a fire, Sasha is placed in foster care but is intent on leaving her small West Virginia mining town, until she makes a new friend at school and learns how to manage her grief through poetry.

Traces the history, geography, economy, and people of the state of West Virginia, with information on important dates and events, plants and animals of the region, and the branches of government.

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.

Lidia is raised poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, her younger brother, BJ--who has cystic fibrosis--and her Gran in the early 1950s, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of West Virginia"--.

Seventeen-year-old Lark, living with her aunt in West Virginia after the death of her father in the Korean War and her mother's abandonment, struggles to understand her family's past and create a future for herself and her disabled brother, Termite.

Marty finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home and tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.