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In the hill country of West Virginia, life is hard, but it is the only life young Heaven Leigh Casteel has ever known. Through the frigid winter nights, when the wind blows mercilessly through the cracks in the cabin floor, Heaven, huddled in an old patched quilt, dreams of college--and of her beautiful, frail mother, who died in childbirth at the age of 14. She determines to someday go to college and to find her mother's family, Boston Brahmins who never learned their daughter's fate. Meanwhile, she must help her step- mother, Sarah, feed and care for the four other children, for her Pa is a no-good moonshiner who beats and then neglects his family.
Heaven seeks and finds refuge in her schoolbooks; in Tom, her beloved half brother and soulmate, and in sweet little Keith and "Our Jane," the youngest Cas- teel children. Then Sarah, treated too shabbily for too long by her mean-tem- pered husband, leaves the cabin for good,...
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Fiction, Juvenile audience, poverty, fathers and daughters, family problems, dysfunctional families, horror fiction, horror tales, father-daughter relationship, Casteel family (Fictitious characters), Heaven Casteel (Fictitious character), Fiction, horror, Casteel family (fictitious characters), fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, general, Large type books, English fiction, Spanish language, Espagnol (Langue), collectionid:vcactPeople
Leigh Casteel, Heaven Leigh Casteel, Luke Casteel, Sarah Casteel, Tom Casteel, Fanny Casteel, Keith Casteel, Jane Casteel, Kitty Dennison, Cal DennisonPlaces
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Les enfants des collines
1993-03-11, J'ai Lu
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Casteel Family, #1
Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, The Casteels were the lowest -- the scum of the hills.
Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face... despite a father meaner than ten vipers... despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pride and her hopes. Someday they'd get away and show the world that they were decent, fine and talented -- worthy of love and respect.
Then Heaven's stepmother ran off, and her wicked, greedy father had a scheme -- a vicious scheme that threatened to destroy the precious dream of Heaven and the children forever!
Deep in Her Heart, Heaven Dreamed....
Pa didn't come home for an entire week. I sat on the porch steps late one night and stared at the stormy sky. There had to be a better place than here for me. Somewhere, a better place. An owl hooted, followed by the howl of a roaming wolf. The autumn wind from the north shrieked and whistled around the forest trees, whipped around the trembling cabin and tried to blow it away....
I stared at the moon -- the same moon that rode high over Hollywood and New York City, London and Paris. Someday I'd like to have a real bed of my own to sleep in, with goosedown pillows and satin comforters. I'd have closets full of new dresses, and shoes by the dozen, in all colors, and I'd eat in fancy restaurants where tall slim candles glowed... but right now I had only a hard cold step to sit on. And tears were freezing on my cheeks and lashes....
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