Genre: Book
Grade: A-
Notable People: Jo Jo Noyes
Title: “The Giver of Stars”
Review: This a well written, beautiful book set in the hollers of Kentucky during the Depression. It’s based on the true story of a group of woman who became the WPA sponsored Packhorse Librarians-delivering books and opportunities to learn to read to the back country people of the region. In the midst of that there is murder, moonshining, and a saga of how coal mining affected the area and its people. Wonderful character studies and a treatise on the power of unlikely friendships in a tough, grimy, hardscrabble environment. Hard to put down.