FIELD OF STONES

Despite the cold, sweat was dripping down into her face and into her eyes. Hard little flakes of ice peppered down on her as she paused for a second and gathered in fresh air and then pushed once again against the cold wet stone. Surely this time the stone would move, and she could find her way home.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s the harshness of life in a small coal mining region of East Tennessee is having a devastating effect on the area. Lettie, a thirteen-year-old girl, is tr...