num_pages: 228
description: When Ginny, her mama, and her sister, Junie, move from the Clancy Valley Coal camp to Sweet Creek Holler in the summer of 1948, a whole new world opens up for Ginny. And in the center of it all is Lou Jean Purvis, the sweetest, prettiest girl in the valley. As long as they are together, Ginny and Lou Jean are certain that nothing will ever harm them.Spanning six years in Ginny Shortt's life, this is a remarkable novel about growing up in a small mining town in Appalachia. A "novel of aspiring proportions...This is a haunting story, well written." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksA "triumph." --The New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: Sweet Creek Holler
titlecomplete: Sweet Creek Holler
genres: Juvenile, Young Adult, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 152
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)