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Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge
by
Ramey Channell (Goodreads Author)
Welcome to Moonlight Ridge, a magical, musical place overlooking a small town named Eden. Here you'll meet a pair of intrepid eight-year-old cousins, Lily Claire and Willie T., and their multi-ethnic family in the backwoods of Alabama.This is a story about family and community ties, loyalty and faith, and a very unusual map used by two flamboyant children to solve a myster...more
Paperback, 124 pages
Published
May 29th 2010
by Chalet Publishers, LLC
(first published May 1st 2010)
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In Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge, Ramey Channell has painted a picture of simpler times when families lived close together and helped each other out, children were free to play and spark their imaginations without close adult supervision, and communities came together during hard times.
Lily Claire lives in the small town of Eden, Alabama where she spends most of her time with her cousin, Willie T. The two of them were born on the same day and they like to have adventures together. The two have...more
Lily Claire lives in the small town of Eden, Alabama where she spends most of her time with her cousin, Willie T. The two of them were born on the same day and they like to have adventures together. The two have...more
Rarely does a book come along that is so magical, so mystical, it transports the reader as if on a magic carpet to a different place and time. Ramey Channel’s Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge does exactly this, and does it by the end of the first chapter.
This is the story of Lily Claire and Willie T., eight-year-old cousins born on the same day, and their extended family. They are the best of friends, and Moonlight Ridge in the small, rural town of Eden, Alabama, is both their home and their playg...more
This is the story of Lily Claire and Willie T., eight-year-old cousins born on the same day, and their extended family. They are the best of friends, and Moonlight Ridge in the small, rural town of Eden, Alabama, is both their home and their playg...more
Perhaps it was fate, but cousins Lily Claire and Willie T. were born the very same instant just after their mothers Sara Onselle Nash and Rachel Bodicea Nock got into a fight about something or other and just about trashed their shared hospital room.
After that, Lily Claire and Willie T. couldn't help but be inseparable friends and playmates throughout the old roads and backwoods of Moonlight Ridge near Eden, Alabama during a long-ago time when skinned knees, grubby hands and natural music were...more
After that, Lily Claire and Willie T. couldn't help but be inseparable friends and playmates throughout the old roads and backwoods of Moonlight Ridge near Eden, Alabama during a long-ago time when skinned knees, grubby hands and natural music were...more
Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge by Ramey Channell is an enchanting story set in rural Alabama when times were simple and children spent their days discovering the world around them.
The eccentric relatives and neighbors of cousins, Lily Claire and Willy T. are both humorous and charming. Readers are easily drawn into their world and eager to find out how their lives turn out.
Ramey Chanell is a creative storyteller and has an incredible ability to bring her story to life. I believe I read the enti...more
The eccentric relatives and neighbors of cousins, Lily Claire and Willy T. are both humorous and charming. Readers are easily drawn into their world and eager to find out how their lives turn out.
Ramey Chanell is a creative storyteller and has an incredible ability to bring her story to life. I believe I read the enti...more
A wonderful first book by the author. It is a look at the South in the 50's, and every word rings true. Can't wait for the next book by this author!
A splendid tale of 2 children and their life up on the mountain that is simply Alabama.
My librarian wrote this!! Show her some love and read it :)
My librarian wrote this!! Show her some love and read it :)
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I was born in a little antiquated medical clinic on Main Street of a small Alabama town, grew up in the backwoods of 1950s rural Alabama, and learned every precious thing I know from the mountain folks who made up my family and community, and the animals who were our constant companions. As someone famous once said, I never let my schooling get in the way of my education. I began writing at an ear...more
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