The Enduring Hills — Janice Holt Giles

"Some day I'm goin' to leave Piney Ridge. I'm goin' to work and make enough money somehow, some way or another, to get away. And I'm goin' to have a better life and see the world and get more learnin'."

This story of young Hod Pierce, who spends his boyhood dreaming of how to get away from the land, is a deeply touching portrait of a boy's journey to manhood. It is also the story of a love affair--with life, with the country he once turned from, and with Mary, the woman who brought him back to the land he never stopped loving.