Rebecca Caudill

A poetic description of a desert and its inhabitants.

A couple with one child adopts seven others of varying nationalities and races.

Susan Cornish is assigned to teach in a one-room school in a small Southern community, and soon realizes that she must first gain her pupils' trust and their parents' confidence in her.

When two families of cousins take turns visiting each other on Saturdays they always have a good time.

Relates the episodes in the life of Contrary Jenkins as he lived by the "law of contrary" in Tennessee and Arkansas.

A nine-year-old orphan has been promised that her week with the president of the orphanage board will be better than her favorite fairy tale, but everything starts out badly, until she meets a grandma "with all sorts of wonderful attachments."

A fifteen-year-old girl does not look forward to spending the summer on her cousins' Kentucky farm, but, as she shares the family's problem of drought, she begins to learn many things about her own interests and capacities.

Henny has just one week to diagnose what's happened to Higgins, the neighbor's cute little puppy. Higgins liked playing with her before she left for a trip to Grandma's, but now that she's back, Higgins only cowers and hides in the thorn bushes. What could have gone wrong in the time she was gone? Henny and the little neighbor children are determined to help Higgins!

The two eldest children of a pioneer family are determined to carry their love of beauty and learning to their new home in the Kentucky Wilderness.

Five adventures in Bonny's busy four-year-old life with her three sisters and brothers in the days of copper-toed shoes.

A young girl grows up and falls in love deep in the Kentucky mountains.

For a doll contest at a party, a little girl chooses to enter a doll that seems least likely to win a prize.

A boy takes his pet cricket to school where it first disturbs the class with its chirping, but then becomes the show-and-tell attraction.

The author, who grew up there, contrasts life in Appalachia, before the mines came, with life in Appalachia now, showing how and why it has become a poverty-stricken area.

During her first year in a one-room school in the Kentucky hills, Bonnie has many exciting experiences, from getting her first book to playing an angel in a play.

Thirty Haiku reflect a scene or thought about nature.