CALLIE KINSER OF BRUSH CREEK - Tecno-Libro

Callie and Corbit Kinser eagerly climb The Hill overlooking their farmhouse to celebrate the first day of summer vacation in their Tennessee mountain community. Beyond the hill lies the meandering creek where they and their friends splash from a rope swing, fish and experience the magic of youth. Their younger sister, Maggie, sometimes tags along but always carrying her treasured banjo. Maggie has a curious talent for getting out of chores, along with her real talent as a musician. Callie resents both, and has no idea how dangerous that simmering resentment will become until it boils over into a life-changing calamity. This summer, the Kinsers also meet Willow Branch, an angelic-looking girl whose face belies her past, and later her brother Thorny, a mysterious loner who tries to protect Willow from their vicious father. Callie and Corbit s friendliness draws Willow in at last, and she sees for the first time a loving, caring family-the polar opposite of her own bleak and bitter home life. She is tormented