Books with author Adella F. Bodie

Daniel Morgan led a company of militia through numerous battles including Saratoga. But his finest moment was leading the southern Patriot force to a brilliant victory over Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens--using a risky battle plan. Describes the childhood, military service, and accomplishments of Daniel Morgan, especially as they relate to the southern campaigns of the American Revolution.

Through the years, Idella Bodie has visited many schools to speak with young readers about her books and one of the most popular questions she receives is What was your life like when you were growing up? To show the way things were, she has gathered memories, not just of her life but the lives of people in her small South Carolina hometown of Ridge Spring. An entertaining account of "one writer's beginning." Re-creating real people and places, Bodie takes the reader back to the 1930s and her childhood on a small South Carolina farm. Growing up during the Great Depression and World War II is depicted in rich detail with tender simplicity and occasional humor

The late Archibald Hamilton Rutledge was highly respected for his accomplishments as a poet, philosopher, educator, writer, outdoorsman and conservationist. He is among the most revered South Carolinians of the twentieth century and served as the state's first Poet Laureate. This biography traces the life of this talented man from his childhood to his position as a nationally acclaimed outdoors writer, inspirational writer and poet, and on to his retirement to his beloved boyhood home, Hampton Plantation. The works of Archibald Rutledge have been read by millions and universally praised for their narration, inspiration, lucidity and classic simplicity.