Gabriel's Horses
In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: horse racing, slavery, african americans, historical fiction, horses, kentucky [X], united states, historical fiction [X], confederate states of america
Snakes & Stones
"Twelve-year-old Chestnut Hill's daddy stole her and the triplets away from their mama.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrets, family life, secrecy, families, kentucky [X], domestic fiction, historical fiction [X]
The Giver Of Stars
"Set in Depression-era America, . . . Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women librarians, kentucky [X], romance fiction, historical fiction [X], traveling libraries, man-woman relationships, friendship, man-woman relationship
Young Lincoln
The story of the childhood and young adult years of Abraham Lincoln.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: lincoln, abraham, adolescence, parent-child relationship, teenagers, indiana, illinois, kentucky [X], biographical fiction, historical fiction [X]
Journey To Freedom, 1838
In this retelling of an episode from Uncle Tom's Cabin, the slave Eliza Harris resolves to escape with her two-year-old son across the frozen Ohio River to prevent her master from selling the boy.
FIC
year:
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: slaves, fugitive slaves, african american women, plantation life, slavery, african americans, kentucky, kentucky [X], historical fiction [X], children's audiobooks, audiobooks
Light Comes To Shadow Mountain
In 1937 rural Kentucky, Cora Mae starts a school newspaper to rally support for the Rural Electrification Act, but the town's resistance to change is not easy to overcome.
FIC
year:
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: electricity, mountain life, student newspapers and periodicals, historical fiction, newspapers, kentucky [X], historical fiction [X], novels
The Librarian Of Boone's Hollow
Addie Cowherd dreams of becoming a novelist, but the Great Depression forces her to take the only job available to her: delivering books to the impoverished Kentucky hill country of Boone's Hollow.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: librarians, great depression, nineteen thirties, man-woman relationship, romance fiction, historical fiction, christian fiction, kentucky [X], love stories, historical fiction [X], christian fiction