TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richardson,Kim Michele
TI  - The book woman of Troublesome Creek
T2  - Thorndike Press large print basic
SN  - 9781432867119
AV  - PS3618.I34474 B66 2019b
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
KW  - Librarians
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Traveling libraries
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - Packhorse librarians
KW  - Methemoglobinemia
KW  - Patients
KW  - Large type books
KW  - FICTION / Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Contemporary Women
KW  - fast
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Large Print Fiction; Gale
N2  - "Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's determination to bring a little bit of hope to the darkly hollers"--; 1936. Tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. She joins Roosevelt's Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a traveling librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky. Along her route, Cussy faces doubters at every turn, but is determined to bring the joy of books to the hardscrabble Kentuckians. -- adapted from back cover
ER  -