Title: Billy Creekmore
First published: 2007
Description: He is a motherless child,
a coal miner,
a circus star,
a con artist,
a seer,
a hero,
and a survivor.

This is the tale of Billy Creekmore, a young boy with mystifying powers and the gift of storytelling. But his life in the Guardian Angels Orphanage is cruel and bleak, and when a stranger comes to claim Billy, he sets off on an extraordinary journey. From the coal mines of West Virginia to the world of a traveling circus, he searches for the secrets of his past, his future, and his own true self.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Coal mines and mining, Orphanages, Circus, Self-reliance, Children's fiction, Family, fiction
Places: West Virginia
Time periods: To 1950
LC classification: PZ7.P83395 Bil 2007