The secret wisdom of the earth

Description:

"After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky."--

subjects: Mountain life,  Families,  Fiction,  Fiction, coming of age,  Kentucky, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  FICTION / Family Life,  FICTION / Coming of Age,  Grief,  Mothers and sons,  Coal mines and mining,  Friendship,  Fate and fatalism,  Family life,  Coming of age,  FICTION,  Family Life,  Coming of Age

Places: Appalachian Region,  Kentucky