Appalachian Song -- Michelle Shocklee, Paperback Reference survives to this day as

survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time

as a species

But just how friendly

** Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature** Global Read Aloud Selection ** School Library Journal Best Middle Grade Book ** Chicago Public Library Best Fiction for Older Readers ** PEOPLE Magazine Best Kids Book ** Junior Library Guild Selection** Texas Lone Star Reading List selection ** Common Sense Media Selection for Families** Cybils Novel in Verse Award Winner** Jane Addams Children Book Award Finalist** ILA Notable Book for a Global Society** Bank Street's Best Children's Books of the Year**Author: Shifa Saltagi Safadi

Published: 7/12/2005

Appalachian Song -- Michelle Shocklee, Paperback Reference survives to this day asForever within the memories of my heart. Always remember, you are perfectly loved. Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the