Sydney J Smart

Charity Sue Sydney J Smart

Charity Sue: She lisped, "Hi, I'se Charity Sue and I'se kin ta' thet woman on the floor. I jest cum frum Widder's Holler and I is gonna need sum hep." Then she smiled, a smile that warmed the entire room. From the rugged hollers of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia to the rugged mountains of the Rockies in Colorado came this "raggedy" preteen girl carrying a burden far beyond her years and a secret worth more than the value of the entire town of Paradise Valley. She had made the trek, all alone, to find kin in the small town that held the Paradise Valley Thrift Store along with someone she knew was a relative, far removed, literally. The reason? An amazingly horrific flood in West Virginia in the year previous had taken away her parents, her uncle, the house in which she lived with them and... Well, you will have to read the book to find out everything that went missing and where it went. Suffice to say here that the journey turned out to be much more dangerous and complicated than any of her new friends had imagined. Will her West Virginian strong prevail? Will they find her parents, uncle and... I do hope you will read this with joy in your heart, have some laughs, maybe shed a tear but, most of all, enjoy the adventure.