A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical backround of the story.

A lonely girl living in a remote mountain community adopts an abandoned bear cub, but their friendship is threatened when a glamorous film crew comes to town.

During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community. RubyLyn is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her sixteenth birthday, RubyLyn itches for more. Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortunetellers RubyLyn has been making for the townsfolk. Or perhaps it's because of Rainey Ford, an...

The rocks around their mountain farm serve all of the Woods family in many ways, both utilitarian and recreational, until the day two ladies from the city come to visit.

Family members compose verses to the folk song "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" to describe an expected visitor. The Sweet clan anticipates the arrival of their friend tootie.

The children from two mountain families about to be joined in a wedding change their minds about each other only after all of them together cooperate in a rescue.

Johnny May comes of age when she realizes that her attempt at self-improvement is for her own gratification, not just to please her boyfriend.

When her younger sister cuts her leg in an accident, Maisie uses the knowledge of herbal medicine she learned from their mother, a healer in their mountain community.