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