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Borrowed children / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-;
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
Subjects: Depressions; Mountain life; Family life;
© c1988., Orchard Books,
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Come a tide / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-; Gammell, Stephen.ill.;
A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.
Subjects: Floods; Country life;
© c1990., Orchard Books,
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Mama is a miner / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-; Catalanotto, Peterill.;
A mother describes her job working as a miner.
Subjects: Mothers; Miners; Work; Stories in rhyme.;
© c1994., Orchard Books,
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Here and then / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-;
Through ghostly visitation and a diary that seems mysteriously to write itself with twelve-year-old Abby's hands, a Civil War nurse asks for help with medical supplies across an abyss of 133 years.
Subjects: Supernatural; Nurses;
© c1994., Orchard Books,
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With a hammer for my heart : a novel / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-;
Subjects: Love stories.; Recluses; Mountain people; Teenage girls; Women healers;
© c1997., DK Ink,
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Father Time and the day boxes / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-; Parker, Robert Andrew.ill.;
Text and illustrations describe how each day comes to us as Father Time tosses down one of the 365 packets he keeps safe in his vault in the clouds.
Subjects: Time; Day;
© c1985., Bradbury Press,
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Choices : stories for adult new readers / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-;
Subjects: Readers for new literates.;
© c1989., University Press of Kentucky,
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Red rover, red rover / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-;
When Sumi's brother leaves for boarding school, her best friend moves away, her grandfather dies, and her mother withdraws into grief, Sumi finds herself facing the beginning of adolescence alone and afraid.
Subjects: Family problems;
© c1989., Orchard Books,
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Cecil's story / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-; Catalanotto, Peterill.;
A boy thinks about the possible scenarios that exist for him at home if his father goes off to fight in the Civil War.
Subjects: War;
© c1991., Orchard Books,
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Who came down that road? / by Lyon, George Ella,1949-; Catalanotto, Peterill.;
Mother and child ponder the past in discussing who might have traveled down an old, old road, looking backwards from pioneer settlers all the way to prehistoric animals.
Subjects: Roads; Mother and child;
© c1992., Orchard Books,
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