Books with title Three Rivers Crossing

Sixteen-Year-Old Celstia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel’s hired boy. It’s a friendship she must keep secret, and when companionship turns to romance, it’s a love that could get Celestia disowned. These affairs of the heart become all the more wrenching on a single, tragic day in May, 1889. After days of heavy rain, the dam fails, unleashing 20 million tons of water onto Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the valley below. The town where Peter lives with his father. The town where Celestia has just arrived to join him. This searing novel in poems explores a cross-class romance—and a tragic event in U. S. history.

On a summer night in 1958, Spooner Hays, son of King Ivory Hays, is face down on the courthouse lawn in Delta County, Texas, drowning in his own blood. King Ivory, self-appointed king of the Hollow, a bottomland area populated exclusively by people of color, is a man who also wields considerable influence in the white community. He wants retribution for his son’s death. Spooner’s white friend, Gray Boy Rivers, is in a rooftop jail cell thirty yards away and four floors up when Spooner dies. Just out of high school, the boys were raised within ten miles of each other—worked together—played together—but lived in different worlds. District Attorney Buster Galt has given up a promising career in Dallas law to run for DA in his home county. Fresh with election success, he promises King Ivory justice and accuses Gray Boy Rivers of the crime.

Crossing Rivers: A young Maasai girl’s world is turned upside down when she is traded to an old Gikuyu woman in exchange for food, by her starving parents. Compelled to become a Gikuyu she goes through adoption and initiation rituals. She falls in love but soon after her marriage her world, once again, changes forever. Crossing Rivers is Book One in The Agikuyu Series "Brilliantly written and uncompromising in its perspective, Crossing Rivers by Skeeter Wilson delivers us into the hands of the peoples of pre-colonial eastern Africa allowing us to learn at their fires, listen to a voice most have never heard, and appreciate a way of life all too often misrepresented." T.L. O’Hara

Josh is twelve years old and his summer holidays are shaping up to be pretty grim. His best friend has been killed in an accident (which he witnessed) and he’s been sent to stay on a farm with his unfriendly cousin.Josh takes his dog Cav along but neither of them know the ‘rules’ of farming life and the relationship between the cousins deteriorates. Then the rain comes and the river starts to rise. When Cav gets swept away by the flood waters, Josh and Brian finally have to work together against the force of the water to try and save him and themselves.

This second in the Rivers Series of novels follows Jake Rivers and brother Gray Boy from the night when In the Rivers Flow ends. It is 2 a.m.--Summer 1956. Spooner Hays is face down in the mud in front of the Delta County Courthouse in Texas, drowning in his own blood. Gray Boy Rivers is in a jail cell thirty yards awy and four floors up when Spooner dies. Both are just out of high school. They were raised within ten miles of each other--worked together--played together--but lived in different worlds. Ivory Hays, Spooner's father, is called King Ivory because he is the self-appointed king of The Hollow, a bottomland area populated exclusively by people of color. He also wields considerable influence among whites. His son's death causes ripples that turn into waves for this tiny rural county. The waves threated to engulf the Rivers family. Buster Galt, fresh from Dallas successes as both a prosecutor and defense lawyer, has returned to his Delta County roots with reluctant son Cameron and a reclusive wife. Buster soon follows in his father's footsteps by winning election as district attorney. Rance Rivers and Buster Galt have old wounds that are mostly healed. Their sons, however, are making new ones. When Buster targets Gray Boy Rivers in his investigation of Spooner's death, the tension between the two families threatens to become a blood feud.

What is a tiger to do when it can't cross the river? One day in the jungle, an elephant starts to cross a river when behind him comes a pair of tigers, beautifully striped, as tigers should be. "Wait for us, lovely elephant! We want to cross without getting our fur wet. Can you take us on your back?" The elephant shrugs his shoulders. "Of course. For a strong animal like me, one tiger, two tigers ... It's not a big deal. Have a ride." "Thank you, beautiful elephant!" Thus begins this beautifully illustrated story, reminding young readers of the value of manners, cooperation and kindness. Muted primary colors and realistic renditions of the wild animals engage and delight. The story's joyful appeal and the large easy text will have children returning to the story again and again.