Title: Billy Creekmore
Description: In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and an uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring trouble. He then joins a circus in hopes of finding his father.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Circus, Fiction, Historical fiction, Orphanages, Coal mines and mining, Self-reliance, History, West virginia, fiction, Fiction, occult & supernatural
Places: West Virginia
Time periods: To 1950