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The Moonlight School A Novel

by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Age band: 13+

Looky Rating System: Violence 1/5, Love & Romance 4/5, Mental Health 2/5, Language 0/5, Substance Use 1/5, Fear / Horror 2/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 0/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 0/5.

Description

Haunted by her sister's mysterious disappearance, Lucy Wilson arrives in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the spring of 1911 to work for Cora Wilson Stewart, superintendent of education. When Cora sends Lucy into the hills to act as scribe for the mountain people, she is repelled by the primitive conditions and intellectual poverty she encounters. Few adults can read and write. Born in those hills, Cora knows the plague of illiteracy.

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