Growing Up in a Holler in the Mountains: An Appalachian Childhood [Library Binding]

Karen Gravelle (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Growing Up

Presents a description of contemporary life in the Appalachian Region of Kentucky while focusing on the home and activities of ten-year-old Joseph Ratliff and his family.

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From School Library Journal

Grade 4-7?Gravelle seeks to introduce readers to a cultural group through the depiction of one child. Inevitably, both the culture and the individual's life are glossed over in so brief an overview, and each book becomes little more than a collection of generalities. In Growing Up in a Holler, readers meet 10-year-old Joseph and his family, who live in eastern Tennessee. Where the Partridge Drums introduces 10-year-old David and his cousin Chantelle, who live on a Mohawk reservation straddling the New York/Ontario border. The grainy full-color photos and crowded texts, which combine narrative about the particular family with sidebars of cultural information, fail to capture either Appalachian or Mohawk culture and result in confusion. There is a need for current nonfiction books about children in the various cultures that make up modern-day America: however, a gap stuffed with filler books still remains a holler.?Kathleen Whalin, Greenwich Country Day School, CT
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Library Binding: 64 pages
• Publisher: Franklin Watts (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 053111452X
• ISBN-13: 978-0531114520
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.2 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,748,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karen Gravelle is the author of Walker and Company's The Period Book and is the author of several other books about difficult issues facing today's adolescents. She lives in New York City.

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It was very well written and accurate., January 1, 1999

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This review is from: Growing Up in a Holler in the Mountains: An Appalachian Childhood (Library Binding)

I think that the book was very well written and accurate about and Appalachian childhood.