In the Blue Ridge Mountains of 1918, Laurel McAdams endures the challenges of a hard life while dreaming that things will eventually improve. But trouble arrives in the form of an outsider--Jonathan Taylor joins his uncle's missionary endeavors as a teacher in the two-room schoolhouse. Laurel feels compelled to protect the tenderhearted teacher from the harsh realities of Appalachian life, even while his stories of life outside the mountains pull at Laurel's imagination.
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Pepper Basham.
