Across
- 5. Kentucky town where the story is set,
- 6. Black librarian who organizes books but doesn’t ride,
- 10. Man who donated his barn for the library, later marries Alice,
- 11. Legal dissolution of Alice’s marriage to Bennett,
- 14. Bennett’s controlling father and mining tycoon,
- 16. New Deal program funding the library,
- 17. Toxic coal waste that caused environmental damage,
- 21. Bloodstained book found near Clem’s body,
- 22. What the librarians delivered to isolated families,
- 23. Central theme uniting the librarians,
- 24. Tough librarian with a sharp wit and smoking habit,
- 27. Clem’s daughter whose testimony freed Margery,
- 28. State where the novel takes place,
- 29. Margery’s loyal boyfriend and father of her child,
Down
- 1. Appalachian terrain the librarians traversed,
- 2. Disaster that exposed the mining company’s negligence,
- 3. Alice’s home country before moving to the U.S.,
- 4. Man who attacked Margery and later turned up dead,
- 7. Margery’s condition when jailed,
- 8. Animal used to deliver books in rural areas,
- 9. Librarian with a limp who dreams of singing,
- 12. Legal proceeding where Margery was acquitted,
- 13. English protagonist who marries Bennett Van Cleve,
- 15. Leader of the Pack Horse librarians, Frank O’Hare’s daughter,
- 18. The institution the women worked for delivering books,
- 19. First Lady who inspired the Pack Horse Library program,
- 20. Quality the librarians embody,
- 22. Alice’s closeted husband, son of Mr. Van Cleve,
- 25. Name of the mining company polluting the town,
- 26. Margery’s defining trait,