In each book she wrote of her childhood experiences and stories handed down through her family and community. She penned a tribute to teachers in "My Great Aunt Arizona", a story about her Aunt Arizona Hughes, and librarians are the stars of "Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile". Myron Houston's life and "The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree" features her Mother, Ruth Houston, as the main character. Her "Littlejim" series are books about her father, J. She frequently identified herself as "first, last and always, a teacher." Her books are filled with Appalachian mountain history and culture with great attention to detail woven throughout the characters and scenery with many of the character's based on her relatives. Mack" in earlier years teaching in Florida and Texas schools grades K-12. Over the years, she taught at the University of South Florida and Western Carolina University and was lovingly referred to as "Ms. Her books have won and been listed on more than forty awards and awards lists.
Houston wrote over 10 books that were published in numerous languages. Gloria Houston, known internationally as an educator and an author of multi-award winning best sellers for young readers as well as textbooks, died peacefully after a long battle with cancer on Monday March 21st, 2016 at her daughter's home in Apollo Beach, Florida.
Her evocative prose expresses the terror, determination and stoicism of women and children left on the home front. Houston ( Littlejim My Great - Aunt Arizona ), who grew up in the Appalachian mountains, offers a profound definition of bravery in this engrossing adventure story. At the campsite, the young heroine nearly accomplishes her mission, drugging the soldiers and rounding up the livestock, but when the opportunity comes to kill her sworn enemy, Valor cannot bring herself to take a life.
Disguised as a boy and armed with two of her father's guns, Valor undertakes a dangerous journey to the enemy campsite, along the way experiencing a frightening encounter with a grizzly bear. Vowing revenge, Valor sets out to retrieve the animals and murder the red-bearded soldier who was especially villainous. Two vicious raids by Yankee soldiers leave the family ravaged and without livestock. While her father, brothers and uncle are off fighting opposite sides of the war, 11-year-old Valor, her mother, a young cousin and two faithful servants are left to run the farm. Based on a true story embellished by folklore, this account of a North Carolina mountain girl's courage paints a realistic, stark picture of the Civil War while preserving the flavor and customs of long-ago Appalachia.
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