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“Hope Like Wildflowers,” by Pepper Basham

Troubles Multiplying! It is the 1910s in the Appalachian Mountains, and Kizzie is in trouble.  She is sixteen-years-old, pregnant, and starving.  In addition, she is broke, and wandering in the frozen woods because her father kicked her out.  Her troubles … Continue reading

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“On Moonberry Lake,” by Holly Varni

Returning Home Life stopped for Cora when her mother took her away from the only home she had ever known. The two had lived happily along with her grandparents at their lakefront lodge. Without an explanation, when she was seven, … Continue reading

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