Books by horseback : a librarian's brave journey to deliver books to children by Berne, Emma Carlson 

BTSB Prebound(Little Bee Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 114647 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Packhorse librarians - Fiction Librarians - Fiction Traveling libraries - Fiction Libraries - Fiction Books and reading - Fiction Appalachian Region - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: A young librarian rides a pack horse through the mountains to deliver books to children in Appalachia during the Great Depression. Includes historical note on the packhorse library project.

Minna's patchwork coat by Mills, Lauren A. 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2015)

BTSB #: 647359 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
F&P: S

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Coats - Fiction Quilting - Fiction Family night - West Virginia - Fiction Community life - West Virginia - Fiction School stories West Virginia - History|yTo 1950 - Fiction Appalachian Region - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.