01872cam a2200397 i 4500 555616616 TxGeo 20220428120000.0 190123s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019001005 9780785226376 hbk. 0785226370 hbk. (OCoLC)1081001472 TxGeo rda Dietrich, Sean. Stars of Alabama / Sean Dietrich. Nashville, TN : Thomas Nelson, 2019. 339 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes discussion questions. "When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes the outfit that's been handling him--and takes the collection plate full of money with him. As the years pass, these stories intertwine in surprising ways--proving how ugly circumstances can produce beautiful people"-- Provided by publisher. 20220513. Migrant labor Fiction. Abandoned children Fiction. Healers Fiction. Clergy Fiction. Ability Fiction. Unplanned pregnancy Fiction. Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Fiction. Alabama Fiction. Kansas Fiction. Historical fiction. QS5