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Paperback. Condition: Good. 2022 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award FinalistFourteen-year-old June Baker never in a million years thought she'd be dressing like a boy, sneaking into a hobo camp, and jumping onto a moving freight train to travel across the state of Tennessee. But that's what she has to do to find work so her family's farm can survive. It's 1933, and the Great Depression is spreading misery throughout America. Where once June was sitting on top of the world, now she's carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. Once she was picking fruit from the pawpaw trees, and now she's picking up the pieces of a family torn apart. Once she was climbing and falling from trees, and now she's jumping from moving trains. June knows the risks. What she doesn't know is that the railroad bull she's falling for has a devastating secret that will change the course of her life. Journey with June in Sitting on Top of the World, a historical fiction tale about family, friendship, love, loss, and hope. Sitting on Top of the World bridges the gap between middle grade and young adult and is a book that middle school and high school teachers can be proud to include in their classroom library or in reading instruction.Content warning: Some instances of physical violence, death, mention of suicide, mention of miscarriage, and characters encounter racial bigotry.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Africa in My Soul - Memoir of a Childhood Interrupted is a beautifully written true story by Cheryl King Duvall, who was born and raised in a small town in Georgia until the age of eight when her parents prepared to enter service as missionaries in West Africa. In her very personal, humble and honest way, Cheryl's beautifully written memoir describes her fascinating and life altering journey living throughout Nigeria after having left her 15 year old sister, her hero, in the States. Cheryl describes in vivid detail her parents' numerous transfers from station to station throughout Nigeria and how she and her younger brother and sister were left without a sense of home. Cheryl carries the reader on a fascinating journey throughout her life in boarding school - out of touch hundreds of miles from her parents, and how it led to intense loneliness and abuse; but she contrasts this with the wonderful and exciting summers living as a family traveling across Nigeria, which became a magical land for her. Cheryl writes in a warm and engaging way how she felt love and gained strength from Africa and the Africa people, learning to feel at home with them as she experienced their culture and witnessed their family lives. She also opens herself completely with honesty and grace about how she developed coping mechanisms and disassociations, many of which were dysfunctional, as ways to deal with the pain of the intense loneliness, abuse and challenges growing up in a missionary kid (MK) environment where children were expected to make sacrifices to accommodate their parents' work for the mission. Cheryl's memoir is thought-provoking and deeply moving as she explains how the decisions of parents and other adult caregivers impact and alter the lives of the children for whom they are responsible. She ties her amazing story together beautifully in the touching Epilogue where she brings the reader up to her current life, and how Africa is still in her Soul. Reviews: Wow Very, very impressive. So nicely written. The author's love and compassion for Africa is exciting, new, terrific. Some of the scenes are painfully and fantastically depicted - truly great. The author's love for her family is palpable and all the more painful because it's a counterweight to her loneliness and anger, intensifying them, making the book more powerful for the reader. This one is truly good. Bernie Schein, Author of Pat Conroy and Our Lifelong Friendship, Famous All Over Town, and If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 2022 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award FinalistFourteen-year-old June Baker never in a million years thought she'd be dressing like a boy, sneaking into a hobo camp, and jumping onto a moving freight train to travel across the state of Tennessee. But that's what she has to do to find work so her family's farm can survive. It's 1933, and the Great Depression is spreading misery throughout America. Where once June was sitting on top of the world, now she's carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. Once she was picking fruit from the pawpaw trees, and now she's picking up the pieces of a family torn apart. Once she was climbing and falling from trees, and now she's jumping from moving trains. June knows the risks. What she doesn't know is that the railroad bull she's falling for has a devastating secret that will change the course of her life. Journey with June in Sitting on Top of the World, a historical fiction tale about family, friendship, love, loss, and hope. Sitting on Top of the World bridges the gap between middle grade and young adult and is a book that middle school and high school teachers can be proud to include in their classroom library or in reading instruction.Content warning: Some instances of physical violence, death, mention of suicide, mention of miscarriage, and characters encounter racial bigotry.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Africa in My Soul - Memoir of a Childhood Interrupted is a beautifully written true story by Cheryl King Duvall, who was born and raised in a small town in Georgia until the age of eight when her parents prepared to enter service as missionaries in West Africa. In her very personal, humble and honest way, Cheryl's beautifully written memoir describes her fascinating and life altering journey living throughout Nigeria after having left her 15 year old sister, her hero, in the States. Cheryl describes in vivid detail her parents' numerous transfers from station to station throughout Nigeria and how she and her younger brother and sister were left without a sense of home. Cheryl carries the reader on a fascinating journey throughout her life in boarding school - out of touch hundreds of miles from her parents, and how it led to intense loneliness and abuse; but she contrasts this with the wonderful and exciting summers living as a family traveling across Nigeria, which became a magical land for her. Cheryl writes in a warm and engaging way how she felt love and gained strength from Africa and the Africa people, learning to feel at home with them as she experienced their culture and witnessed their family lives. She also opens herself completely with honesty and grace about how she developed coping mechanisms and disassociations, many of which were dysfunctional, as ways to deal with the pain of the intense loneliness, abuse and challenges growing up in a missionary kid (MK) environment where children were expected to make sacrifices to accommodate their parents' work for the mission. Cheryl's memoir is thought-provoking and deeply moving as she explains how the decisions of parents and other adult caregivers impact and alter the lives of the children for whom they are responsible. She ties her amazing story together beautifully in the touching Epilogue where she brings the reader up to her current life, and how Africa is still in her Soul. Reviews: Wow Very, very impressive. So nicely written. The author's love and compassion for Africa is exciting, new, terrific. Some of the scenes are painfully and fantastically depicted - truly great. The author's love for her family is palpable and all the more painful because it's a counterweight to her loneliness and anger, intensifying them, making the book more powerful for the reader. This one is truly good. Bernie Schein, Author of Pat Conroy and Our Lifelong Friendship, Famous All Over Town, and If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom.…

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