Books with author P.K. Miller

Sam Davis, his mother, and stepfather were hiking out of a box canyon two years ago when his mother fell to her death. Sam is convinced that his stepfather could have saved her if only he had been braver. Now on his own adventure in the High Sierra, Sam must find out for himself what it means to be brave and how much difference bravery can make when confronted with the foolishness of men and the power of Nature.

The summer of 1973 in Jasper, Alabama, resumes for Tamika, Tory, and Douggie as the trio become wrapped up in the daily activities planned by Aunt Fran, and Grandma and Grandpa Stokes. Their interactions with Big Momma and the spirited ghost of their great-great grandmother, Sally B. Lipscomb, affectionately known as G’Momma, merely intensify their summer adventure. While innocently focusing on their desire to have fun, the trio is quickly forced to confront challenges in love. Tamika has never had to deal with a person who dislikes her without cause until Angie Dripp. Tory has never experienced feelings for a girl as he does Mary Lou Lane, and Douggie is faced with convincing others that although his friend Randolph Hines is “special” he is “normal.” Together G’Momma and Big Momma are obliged to teach the trio that there is much to learn about love. Through the wisdom of the elders and by way of G’Momma’s time travel, Tamika, Tory, Douggie and Big Momma explore the plight of the African American nurse and the meaning of love.

The trip south to Jasper, Alabama, for the Lipscomb-Gray Family Reunion is one that the Johnson’s look forward to each year. For Bernice and Leonard it symbolizes family, renewed spirituality, and homecoming. For eleven-year-old Tamika and her younger brother Douglas, it means the official start to summer. Six weeks of endless fun and adventure “down home” with Grandma and Grandpa Stokes, Big Momma, Aunt Fran, and their thirteen-year-old cousin Tory. This holds true the summer of 1973 as the trio experience the journey of a lifetime by way of time travel into the darkest period in African American history as slaves. Together they plan their risky escape with Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad from the beginning to their deliverance to freedom in Canada.