Up a Rutted Road

Up a Rutted Road

CAMIE McCAIN had never met a hermit, not till Claude shows up smack-dab in the middle of Aunt Charleneâ€™s old-timey kitchen. Camie reckons Uncle Glen is the recluseâ€™s only friend. Off and on that summer, she spies Claude in the most unlikely places, but he vanishes before she can catch up to talk to him. Does he really live in a barrel in some lonely holler like the kids at church say? Is he on the run from the law? How come he shies away from folks like a skittish colt?

Camie has the summer of her life and one adventure after another. She tames an ornery rooster, helps put by for winter, learns to swim, and goes to camp meetin' with all the mountain folk. She dreads the day she has to return to the dirty factory town where her family lives.

Then one day tragedy strikes the mountain. Camie blames herself. Angry and afraid, she bolts into the mountains where she gets lost in a thunderstorm, tumbles down an incline, wrenches her ankle, and encounters Claudeâ€”this time in an abandoned mine. She tells him of the grief that has come to her family and claims itâ€™s her fault. After all, didnâ€™t she pray all wrong? And didnâ€™t she keep a deadly secret?

Claude reveals some secrets of his own, including his role in a mine disaster and how that led to his becoming a recluse. He tends to Camieâ€™s ankle and helps her home, where she discovers an important truth from a cicada shell.
Country USA
Author Sharon Kirk Clifton
Binding Kindle Edition
Edition 1
EISBN 9781301433186
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 117
PublicationDate 2013-05-17
ReleaseDate 2013-05-17

Country	USA
Author	Sharon Kirk Clifton
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781301433186
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	117
PublicationDate	2013-05-17
ReleaseDate	2013-05-17

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