"Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner, but a sickly constitution has kept her confined to the house for most of her life. Hoping to improve her daughter’s health—and lessen the burden on their family—Anna's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman and an Elemental Master, in a holler outside of Ducktown. As she settles into her new life, Anna learns new skills at Aunt Jinny’s side and discovers that she, too,...

Bk 4 of The Buelah Quintet, originally published 1980.

Bestselling author B.J. Hoff will delight readers as her unforgettable characters from A Distant Music and The Wind Harp reunite for a dramatic conclusion to The Mountain Song Legacy trilogy. When a shadow falls over the MacAuley family, newlyweds Jonathan and Maggie Stuart find their faith and newly discovered happiness tested in unforeseen ways. An abrupt summons to return from their honeymoon wrenches them from the joy of their early days of marriage...

Explores the coal mining industry's corporate structure as promoting an endless cycle of poverty, exploitation, and environmental abuse that has dominated the Appalachian coal fields since coal was first discovered there.

Living with his grandfather in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, Curley, who lost most of his family to coal-mining accidents, faces a difficult choice when a new coal boss takes over and threatens the mountains Curley loves.

A look at the Centralia, Pennsylvania, mining disaster offers a portrait of the dying coal town, the scene of the nation's worst abandoned mine fire, and the families caught up in the disaster, discussing the struggle to provide a just remuneration to the victims.

In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.