TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shocklee,Michelle
TI  - Appalachian song
SN  - 9781496472441
U1  - 813.6 23/eng/20230928
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Cedar Stream, Ill
PB  - Tyndale House Publishers
KW  - Adopted children
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Midwives
KW  - Country musicians
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Christian fiction
N1  - Includes discussion questions
N2  - Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strong. But soon Songbird is forced to make a heartbreaking decision that will tear this little family apart. Thirty years later, the day after his father's funeral, Walker Wylie is stunned to learn he was adopted as an infant. The famous country singer enlists the help of adoption advocate Reese Chandler in the hopes of learning why he was abandoned by his birth parents. With the only clue he has in hand, Walker and Reese head deep into the Appalachian Mountains to track down Bertie Jenkins, the midwife who holds the secrets to Walker's past
ER  -