Cynthia Rylant
242) A fine white dust
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The visit of the traveling Preacher Man to his small North Carolina town gives new impetus to thirteen-year-old Peter's struggle to reconcile his own deeply felt religious belief with the beliefs and non-beliefs of his family and friends.
243) Soda jerk
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A series of poems spoken by a young soda jerk in a small town as he observes the people and places around him.
246) Ludie's life
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Cynthia Rylant returns to her home state of West Virginia with this powerful and evocative collection of poems. In a heartbreaking narrative that flows like a novel, we follow Ludie from childhood to falling in love and getting married, through the birth of her own children, and on into old age. This is the story of one woman's experiences in a hard-scrabble coal-mining town, a story that brims with universal themes about life, love, and family-and...
247) The Heavenly Village
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Undecided souls who have died while they are not quite ready to go to heaven find themselves in the halfway place known as the Heavenly Village.
253) Rain
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"Children, animals, and natural life react to a coming rainstorm that will nourish them all"--