Close to famous by Bauer, Joan 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2011)

BTSB #: 097132 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.6 MG RC: 3.2 6-8 Lexile: 540 F&P: T

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Baking - Fiction Cupcakes - Fiction Country life - Fiction Literacy - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction West Virginia - Fiction

Summary: Foster McFee, 12, and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life.

Holler of the fireflies by Moore, David Barclay 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2022)

BTSB #: 655900 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 670 F&P: Z

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Moving - Fiction Community life - Fiction Adjustment (Psychology) - Fiction African Americans - Fiction West Virginia - Fiction

Summary: Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Javari will learn a lot about science, tech, engineering, and math at camp. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler and blow his mind wide open.

Let me fix you a plate : a tale of two kitchens by Lilly, Elizabeth 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2021)

BTSB #: 573821 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 710 AD F&P: O

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Grandparents - Fiction Vacations - Fiction Family life - West Virginia - Fiction Family life - Florida - Fiction Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction West Virginia - Fiction Florida - Fiction

Summary: A girl and her family go on a road trip to have meals with their extended family from two different cultures.

Missing May by Rylant, Cynthia 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2018)

BTSB #: 774070 Available

Dewey: FAges: 11-16   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 6.7 6-8 Lexile: 980 F&P: W

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Death - Fiction Joy and sorrow - Fiction Aunts - Fiction West Virginia - Fiction

Summary: After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.

Shiloh by Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 

Paperback(Aladdin, 2000)

BTSB #: 668683 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Fiction Animal abuse - Fiction West Virginia - Fiction

Summary: When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to mistreat his dogs.

Shiloh [Shiloh quartet]by Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1991)

BTSB #: 668697 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 5.7 3-5 Lexile: 890 F&P: R

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Fiction Animal abuse - Fiction West Virginia - Fiction

Summary: When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to mistreat his dogs.