Teaching Resources Center, Joyner Library
North Carolina
A Selective Bibliography
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TITLE
Bagby, Libby. Lucky's Plott: A Plott Hound Tale. Bloomington, IN:
AuthorHouse, 2008.
E
B1462L
Hunting season has finally arrived and Battle Cry, a plott hound, is on his first
hunt of the year. Every ounce of him from his nose to his tail quivers with
excitement. He eagerly anticipates romping through the woods with his plott
companions to see who can be the first to strike, tree, or bay. Little did he know
that around the bend an event loomed that would change his life.
N/A
Drummond, Allan. The Flyers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2003.
E
D844F
In 1903, a group of children on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, dream
of flying and witness the first flight of the Wright brothers. Includes a chronology
of milestones in the history of flight.
N/A
Finch, Ralph. The Adventures of Pee Dee the Pirate. Midlothian, VA:
Finchmore Farm, 2007.
E
F4916A
N/A
Gaffney, Timothy R. Wee And The Wright Brothers. New York: Henry
Holt, 2004.
E
G12W
A rodent reporter from the "Mouse News" travels from Dayton, Ohio, to Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina, to cover Wilbur and Orville Wright's historic 1903 flight.
510
Griffin, Kitty. The Ride: The Legend of Betsy Dowdy. New York:
Antheneum Books, 2010.
Recounts the legend of North Carolina teenager Betsy Dowdy, whose courageous
ride on a cold December night in 1775 may have played a crucial role in the
American Revolution.
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G8753R
N/A
Harvey, Jeanne Walker. My Hands Sings the Blues: Romare Bearden’s
Childhood Journey. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish
Children, 2011.
E
H26255M
In Harlem, New York City, an artist follows the rhythms of blues music as he
recalls his North Carolina childhood while painting, cutting, and pasting to make
art.
1090
Houston, Gloria. Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile. New York: Harper,
2011.
E
H8183M
Dorothy has always wanted to work in a library like the red brick one of her
girlhood, but after moving to rural North Carolina she discovers that the type of
library is less important than the books and the people who read them.
880
Penn, Audrey. The Whistling Tree. Terre Haute, IN: Tanglewood Press,
2006.
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P38W
When Penny inquires about a wooden headboard hand-carved by her greatgrandfather, she learns, with the help of great-great-uncle, Johnny Elk, of her
Cherokee heritage and the special gift The Great Spirit has bestowed upon her.
450
Ransom, Candice F. Rescue on the Outer Banks. Minneapolis:
Carolrhoda Books, 2000.
E
R174R
Sam Deal and his horse, Ginger, help an African-American lifesaving crew rescue
shipwreck victims off the coast of North Carolina in 1896.
N/A
Runyon, Anne Marshall. The Sheltering Cedar. Washington, DC: Portal
Press, 2008.
E
R876S
N/A
Smallman, Steve. Santa is Coming to the Carolinas. Naperville, IL:
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky/Hometown World, Ltd., 2012.
E
SM1889S
It's Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is
headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over
the Bank of America building, Hearst Tower, Rainbow Row, and the Duke
Energy Center, Charlotte; the Cape Hatteras lighthouse, NC; South Carolina State
House, Columbia; Memorial Bell Tower, Raleigh; the Jackson Building,
Asheville; the Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge and Fort Sumter National Monument,
Charleston; and The Gaffney Peach, SC. "Ho, ho ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry
Christmas, Carolinas!"
N/A
Tuck, Pamela M. As Fast as Words Can Fly. New York: Lee & Low Books,
2013.
A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina,
uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement.
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T793AS
FICTION
N/A
Carris, Joan Davenport. Wicked Water. Beaufort, NC: North Shore
Books, 2005.
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C235W
Wicked Water tells the fictional story of one family during the tragic 1999 season
in North Carolina, when Hurricane Floyd whammed into Carolina. Floyd killed
millions of farm animals and 51 people. It destroyed 50,000 homes in 39
counties---on and on go the bad statistics.
N/A
Dahl, Candy. Emma and the Civil Warrior. Raleigh, NC: Carolina
Moon, 2001.
F
D1373E
In 1865 twelve-year-old Emma strives to help defeat the Union army in Raleigh,
through various acts of smuggling, spying and stealing. After General Sherman's
signal officer befriends her family, Emma struggles to accept the truths
that the end of war brings.
1060
Davis, Donald. Listening for the Crack of Dawn. Little Rock, AR:
August House, 2001.
F
D2918L
A master storyteller recalls the Appalachia of the 50's and 60's.
740
Draper, Sharon. Stella by Starlight. New York: Atheneum Books for
Young Readers, 2015
F
D7918ST
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee,
North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to
demand change in her segregated town.
780
Hemingway, Edith. Road to Tater Hill. New York: Delacorte Press, 2009.
F
H3735R
At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home during the summer of 1963,
eleven-year-old Annie Winters, grief-stricken by the death of her newborn sister
and isolated by her mother's deepening depression, finds comfort in holding an
oblong stone "rock baby" and in the friendship of a neighbor boy and a reclusive
mountain woman with a devastating secret.
680
Hostetter, Joyce. Comfort. Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek, 2009. (Other
title from author: Blue)
In 1945 Hickory, North Carolina, Ann Fay's father is back from the war but she
must still rely on her own strength and determination as she faces the problems of
her polio-induced disability and her father's failure to get a job.
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H796C
920
Hubbard, Jenny. Paper Covers Rock. New York: Delacorte Press, 2011.
F
H8616P
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes
of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher
reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover
things up.
470
Maddox, Jake. Storm Surfer. Minneapolis: Stone Arch Books, 2008.
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M2642ST
Jill never thought her week at surf camp would be interrupted by a hurricane, but
one is heading for the North Carolina coast.
670
Marsh, Carole. The Mystery At Kill Devil Hills. Peachtree City, GA:
Gallopade International/Carole Marsh Books, 2003.
F
M352MYK
Four kids search for a mysterious missing airplane in this story set in Kill Devil
Hills on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.
740
Moses, Shelia. The Sittin’ Up. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2014.
(Ronnie Barnes Collection)
F
M8535SI
When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies,
Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in
how his family and friends care for their dead.
660
O'Connor, Barbara. Greetings from Nowhere. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2008.
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OC53G
In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a
happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow
who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and
are transformed by their shared experiences.
640
O’Donnel, Liam. Blackbeard’s Sword: the Pirate King of the Carolinas.
Minneapolis: Stone Arch Books, 2007.
Edward Teach, known far and wide as Blackbeard, holds the coast of North and
South Carolina in a grip of terror. Lieutenant Maynard and his men of the Royal
Navy decide to capture the pirate, but they need help piloting their way through
the maze of coves and inlets. They enlist the aid of local fishermen Jacob Webster
and his father, but Maynard doesn't count on the fact that Jacob may be leading
them into trouble, as the boy thinks Blackbeard is a hero.
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Turnage, Sheila. Three Times Lucky. New York: Dial Books for Young
Readers, 2012.
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T8491T
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau,
now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel,
owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated
in a murder.
660
Weatherford, Carole Boston. Freedom On The Menu: The Greensboro
Sit-Ins. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2005. (Other
title from author: Princeville: The 500-year Flood)
F
W378F
The 1960 civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro,
North Carolina, are seen through the eyes of a young southern black girl.
MIXED MEDIA
N/A
Smith, Donna Campbell. Pale as the Moon. Wilmington, NC: Coastal
Carolina Press, 1999.
MM
F
C1524P
On visits to the sandy Outer Banks islands off the coast of North Carolina, a
sixteenth-century Paspatank girl named Gray Squirrel befriends a wild pony, and
together they fulfill their destiny of helping the English colonists on Roanoke
Island.
NONFICTION
N/A
Butler, Sana. Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of
Slaves. Guilford, CN: Lyons Press, 2009.
305.896
B9786S
N/A
Hicks, Orville. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns: As Told by Orville
Hicks. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2009.
398.2
H5296J
N/A
Shelby, Anne. The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other
Appalachian Folktales. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2007.
398.2097
SH431A
N/A
Hairr, John. The Great Hurricanes of North Carolina. Charleston, SC:
History Press, 2008.
551.55
H1275G
N/A
Humphries, George. North Carolina Wildflowers. Englewood, CO:
582.13
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Westcliffe Publishers, 2000.
H889N
N/A
Manley, Roger. Weird Carolinas: Your Travel Guide to the Carolinas’
Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. New York: Sterling, 2007.
917.5604
M3149W
N/A
Blight, David W. A Slave No More: Two Men who Escaped to
Freedom: Including Their own Narratives of Emancipation.
Boston: Mariner Books, 2009.
973.7
B618S
N/A
Haberle, Susan E. The North Carolina Colony. Mankato, MN: Capstone
Press, 2006.
975.602
H1136N
N/A
Hall, Lynne. Strange but True North Carolina. Birmingham: Sweet
Water Press, 2007.
917.5604
H144S
N/A
Cannavale, Matthew. North Carolina, 1524-1776. Washington DC:
National Geographic, 2007.
975.6
C1642N
N/A
Crane, Carol. Wright Numbers: A North Carolina Number Book.
Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2005. (Other title from author: T
is for Tar Heel: A North Carolina Alphabet)
975.6
C8503W
N/A
Lacey, T. Jensen. Amazing North Carolina: Fascinating Facts,
Entertaining Tales, Bizarre Happenings, And Historical Oddities
From The Tarheel State. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press,
2003.
975.6
L116A
N/A
Schlosser, S. E. Spooky North Carolina: Tales of Hauntings, Strange
Happenings, and other Local Lore. Guilford, CN: GPP, 2009.
398.209756
SCH397S
N/A
Stead, Judy. The Twelve Days of Christmas in North Carolina. New
York: Sterling, 2009.
782.4
T917NC
N/A
Zepke, Terrance. Pirates of the Carolinas for Kids. Sarasota, FL:
Pineapple Press, 2009.
910.4
Z48PK
N/A
Watson, Alan D. African Americans in Early North Carolina: a
Documentary History. Raleigh, NC: Office of Archives &
History, NC Dept. of Cultural Resources, 2005.
975.6
AF834
N/A
Powell, William S. Encyclopedia of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
975.6
EN192
N/A
Margulies, Phillip. A Primary Source History Of The Colony Of North
Carolina. New York: Rosen, 2006.
975.6
M337P
6
N/A
Mis, Melody. The Colony of North Carolina: a Primary Source History.
New York: PowerKids Press, 2007.
975.6
M68C
N/A
North Carolina. Division of Archives and History. The Old North State
Fact Book. Raleigh: Office of Archives and History, North
Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 2008.
975.6
OL12
N/A
Sateren, Shelley Swanson. North Carolina Facts And Symbols.
Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2003.
975.6
SA82N
N/A
Wimmer, Teresa. North Carolina. Mankato, MN: Creative Education,
2010.
975.6
W716N
N/A
Wiener, Roberta and James R Arnold. North Carolina: The History Of
North Carolina Colony, 1655-1776. Chicago: Raintree, 2005.
975.601
W6366N
N/A
McClennan, Adam & Wilson, Martin. Uniquely North Carolina.
Chicago: Heinemann, 2004.
975.604
M132U
N/A
York, M.J. North Carolina. Mankato, MN: Child’s World, 2011.
975.6
Y824N
PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION
N/A
Earley, Lawrence. North Carolina Wild Places: a Closer Look. Raleigh,
NC: NC Wildlife Commission, 1993.
Prof
574.5
N81111
N/A
Taylor-Miller, Sandra. Are We There Yet? The Wright Brothers'
National Memorial Park, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Site of
the First Heavier-Than-Air Machine-Powered Flight. Boone,
NC: Parkway, 2004.
Prof
975.6
T2195A
BIOGRAPHY
N/A
Ebel, Julia Taylor and Sherry Jensen. Addie Clawson: Appalachian Mail
Carrier. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2003.
Presents the story of Addie Clawson, the first woman mail carrier in Boone,
North Carolina, and her impact on the community.
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B
C578E
N/A
Ebel, Julia Taylor and Orville Hicks. Orville Hicks: Mountain Stories,
Mountain Roots. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2005.
B
H529E
Orville Hicks, the storyteller, grew up on the Beach Mountain of western North
Carolina. He learned storytelling from his mother, Sarah Harmon Hicks, and his
famous cousin, Ray Hicks. This book tells the story of Orville growing up in the
mountains.
N/A
Marshall, Franklin and Maricela Marshall. Louden Nelson: from slavery
to philanthropy. Santa Crus, CA: Children’s Learning Museum
2003.
B
N3349M
Tells the story of Louden Nelson who was born a slave in North Carolina but
came to Santa Cruz California where he became a successful farmer and
businessman. Upon his death he left his property to the city to help fund the
schools and keep them open.
N/A
Weintraub, Aileen. Blackbeard: Eighteenth-Century Pirate of the
Spanish Main and Carolina Coast. New York: Powerkid Books,
2002.
B
T2201W
Follows the exploits of one of the most feared pirates of the eighteenth century,
the legends associated with him and the probable discovery of his ship off the
coast of North Carolina in 1996.
1010
Maurer, Richard. The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous
Brothers. Brookfield, CT: Roaring Book Press, 2003.
B
W9337M
Presents a brief biography of the sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
N/A
Dixon-Engel. The Wright Brothers: First in Flight. New York: Sterling,
2007.
B
W934D
A biography of the Wright brothers, who became famous as the inventors of the
airplane.
N/A
Kaufman, Mervyn D. and Gray Morrow. The Wright Brothers; kings of
the air. Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub. Co., 2004.
B
W934KA
A biography of the brothers who made the world's first flight in a power-driven,
heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
1010
Maurer, Richard. The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous
Brothers. Brookfield, CT: Roaring Book Press, 2003.
Presents a brief biography of the sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
8
B
W9337M
N/A
Niz, Xavier. The Wright Brothers and the Airplane. Mankato, MN:
Capstone, 2007.
In graphic novel format, tells the story of how Wilbur and Orville Wright
developed, tested, and successfully flew the first powered airplane.
Last updated May 2016 ES
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W934NI