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In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies.

Everyone thought Ellen Grae's imagination had fun away with her as she told curious and very funny stories about people she had known. Although her antics were amusing, she knew she didn't make up the strange secret told her by her good friend Ira, who lived with his pet goat Mis...

Mary Call Luther lives happily with her father and three siblings in the remote Smoky mountains of North Carolina. Her idyllic childhood ends abruptly when her father dies. Though she is the second eldest, Mary Call emerges as the head of the family, determined to do what she mus...

Distinctly unenthusiastic when her four-year-old niece, Ella, comes for a prolonged visit, eleven-year-old Amy finds her relationship with the small girl gradually changing her view of herself and life in general.

Kitty Dale, whose mother does not want to deal with a child, or admit one into her new life, spends the summer with Aunt Petal and eventually learns to accept her mother's weaknesses.

Doubting that her father's death was purely accidental, 14-year-old Lucy and her family confront destitution and a formidable adversary in their small town.

An eleven-year-old girl, with no appreciation for land and growing things, finds her values beginning to change when she agrees to let an impoverished family live in a small house she owns, in exchange for working in the surrounding orange grove.

Although there is no love lost between them, twelve-year-old Wilma is her willful and peppery grandmother's choice for a companion.

When fourteen-year-old Lily and her family move to Florida, it falls to her to keep her family together and start a new life.