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The inside scoop

2009
Only her family and closest friends know that average teen Miley Stewart is also pop sensation Hannah Montana, and then a sneaky reporter starts snooping around to find out what Hannah has got to hide.

The home-run king

2008
Eleven-year-old Tank and his older brother Jimbo, who both love baseball, can't believe their good fortune when Josh Gibson, home-run king of the Homestead Grays, stays at their house during a series in Nashville.

Davy Crockett

frontier hero
2003
Surveys the life of the American frontiersman who became a member of Congress and died trying to defend the Alamo.

Terrifying toys of Tennessee

2007
Eric Carter, Mark Bruder, and Shayleen Mills, three friends in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, find their lives in danger when they decide to investigate strange occurrences at a new toy store, only to find that the toys have been watching them too.

The Hope Chest

2010
When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.

Color me dark

the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North
2000
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

Flaming arrows

2004
When Chad and his family flee to a fort in the Tennessee wilderness to escape an attack by Chickamauga Indians, the presence of the family of a white renegade who joined the Indians causes additional tensions.

Abby takes a stand

2006
Grandma Gee shares with her grandchildren her experiences in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1960, when she passed out flyers while her cousins and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.

Davy Crockett

2012
Davy Crockett tames the American frontier in Texas and fights against the Mexicans in the Battle of the Alamo.

Davy Crockett

2004
Offers a brief introduction to the life and times of frontiersman Davy Crockett.

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