4.02 avg rating — 1,232 ratings

"It is a beautiful classic and poetic masterpiece told through the child's quiet objectivity and revealing the desperation of the miners' lives in 1940 Kentucky"

4.11 avg rating — 2,185 ratings

"Such richness of love for the mountain land and the powerful destructive force of the mine owners"

3.55 avg rating — 37,030 ratings

"The most recent Appalachian masterpiece, the story of an American and Appalachian tragedy with richness of character and description."

3.91 avg rating — 15,874 ratings

"This earlier masterpiece reveals the middle=class Appalachian desperate to avoid entrapment in an American family eaten by greed."

4.17 avg rating — 3,822 ratings

"A timeless tragedy of loss of land and values intersected with American loss of individuality."

4.04 avg rating — 3,944 ratings

"The Ballad series cuts across stereotypes and shows both time and timelessness in a people trapped by both."

4.06 avg rating — 4,848 ratings

"House introduces the sensitive child embabbled by internal and external forces but refusing to run from his Appalachian culture."

4.17 avg rating — 325 ratings

"A minor masterpiece with another Appalachian child revealing harshness and love within the Appalachian family."