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The Tall ones: Spring 1896

The Tall ones: Spring 1896

Ashe, Dorianne

Paperback

History

ISBN13: 9798263833688
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2025
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Virginia mountains. Spring 1896. Five children. One promise. A mountain that does not forget.Meadow is fifteen when her father puts on a stiff new uniform and sends her mother away for rest. Then he sends Meadow and her four siblings into the back of a wagon, bound for an aunt they barely know in the Appalachian hollar.Aunt Willow is a mountain healer with granny magic, too many dead husbands, and a cabin that feels watched. The woods lean in. The old stories talk about people who walked these hills before anyone else. Meadow's mother pressed a diary into her hands before they left and whispered a warning:

Write everything down. If it speaks to you, don't answer. They must stay hidden.

What begins as a coming-of-age story of siblings trying to stay a family becomes an Appalachian historical fiction novel with folklore in its bones: family secrets, a vanished little sister, cave marks older than the Cherokee stories, and a hidden people living under the mountain. Meadow must decide what to protect-her brothers and sisters, the truth in her mother's diary, or the kin the surface world was never meant to find.

For readers who want 19th century Appalachia, rural mountain folklore, magical realism, and a first-person sisterhood story that starts in the wagon and ends with a secret the land itself is waiting to see kept.

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