She Sang for the Mountains: The Story of Singer, Songwriter Activist Jean Ritchie Readers loved the book's dramatic

Readers loved the book's dramatic adventure and romance

and country music: three threads beautifully woven into one in Marianne Worthington's poetry collection The Girl Singer

When Katherine Pettit and May Stone arrived in the rural Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky to engage in social settlement work in the late 1800s

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She Sang for the Mountains: The Story of Singer, Songwriter Activist Jean Ritchie Readers loved the book's dramaticThis lyrical picture book biography of songwriter and activist Jean Ritchie Singer traces her life from the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky to New York City and beyond as her protest songs inspired a nation. The author and illustrator previously teamed up for the stunning biography Saving Granddaddy's Stories: Ray Hicks, the Voice of Appalachia.