gr 5-8 213 pgs1929-1932 Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia. 11 year old April Sloane has never been to school. When President Hoover opens the President's Mountain School, for children living on the mountain, April wants to go too. With the help of Aunt Birdie, April is able to convince her m...
So far my plans had gone even better than I’d expected. The sliver of light under Lottie’s door had turned dark a little earlier than usual, and when I had finally tiptoed downstairs and slipped out the back door near midnight, C.B. hadn’t even bothered to roust himself out of my bed to follow me...
Vincents who happened to be deaf. Vincents who happened to work at ASD, where Miss Grace had earned the diploma hanging in her bedroom. I hoped Mr. Vincent hadn't noticed me studying his every move all the way through dinner. Now Mother was giving me a puzzled look as I joined them in the parlor ...
I had cracked my bedroom door open to listen. “I’m sorry, Carol,” I overheard Mom say. “Ren won’t be able to go to Adventure Bay with Allison and the other girls after all … No, sorry, next week won’t work either. I’m afraid you’ll have to go ahead without her. Ren’s going to be sticking close to...
But just as the leaves were starting to flare up with color, Daddy came home with a heavy flour sack slung over his shoulder. When he heaved it to the floor and let Mama peek inside, she let out a gasp. “Chestnuts!” she cried. “Where on earth—” Daddy laid open the bag for me to look, too. “We wer...