The Bookwomen from Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson

In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her faithful mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky. Along her dangerous route, Cussy, known to the mountain folk as Bluet, confronts those suspicious of her damselfly-blue skin and the government's new book program. She befriends hardscrabble and complex fellow Kentuckians, and is fiercely determined to bring comfort and joy, instill literacy, and give to those who have nothing, a bookly respite, a fleeting retreat to faraway lands. My Take: This is a book about a group of people who live in Kentucky who have blue skin because they came from France. They were treated as bad as AFrican American were and had to not use things for whites only. She had a route with the Pack Horse Librarian Progam. There were some really bad things that happen in the story. I really liked this book. This is taken from my own library.