Billy Creekmore

I loved this book. If you want a Huck Finn type book with an element of rescue and survivor, this is it. Once you begin reading, you will not put this one down for long. It is a good short read. Thanks Tracey Porter for writing this. Keep writing more ! Pat Haarhaus

In the early 1900's, "The Guardian Angels Home for Boys" is anything but. In this grim setting in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, ten-year-old Billy Creekmore exists - barely. The most that Billy can hope for is that Mr. Colder will take him away to work in the glassworks when he is twelve. When a friend reports back about the true conditions of the glassworks, that hope dies hard. Overhearing that Mr. Colder is going to employ him despite his tender age, Billy prepares to run away. Fortuitously, a long-lost relative turns up and whisks Billy away to his first true home. Billy's misadventures are legion, taking him from the orphanage through the pre-union coal mines into a traveling circus. Along the way, Billy meets his biological father and tries mightily and ultimately unsuccessfully to believe in the goodness of this unsavory circus grifter. Misfortunes, however, do not harden Billy's good heart. As a protagonist, Billy is a sweet-natured charmer of animals and people -- including readers.

Billy Creekmore is a bullet dance through the swamps of real-life trauma. Tracey Porter keeps her readers on their toes, dodging the mishaps and unfortunate situations that befall the main character. Through the many twists and turns, this heartwarming, gripping adventure story, teaches us that life has a way of changing things before we have a chance to grow accustomed to them. Be prepared to read this novel in one sitting!