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    Christy
    Christy
    Christy
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    Christy

    Written by Catherine Marshall

    Narrated by Kellie Martin

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    About this audiobook

    Christy Huddleston left home at 19 to teach school in the Smokey Mountains. There she came to know and love the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, their yearning for beauty and truth. Christy found her faith severely challenged in these primitive surroundings; and, confronted with two young men of unique strength and needs, she found her own growing yearnings challenged by love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateJun 22, 2010
    ISBN9781608146932
    Christy
    Author

    Catherine Marshall

    I was born in Yorkshire, England, one of five children. Mum was a Geordie, and Dad was a Yorkshireman, an interesting mix. We migrated to Australia in 1960 as ten-pound-poms. A biomedical scientist by profession, I'm now retired and living in Tasmania. I spend my time writing, researching my family tree and enjoying the company of my children and grandchildren. My books have been inspired by our family history, passed down through the many tales our parents told us – no doubt much embroidered but endlessly entertaining.

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    • 5/5
      Incredible book. Wonderful narration. Couldn’t stop until the end—an end I didn’t expect in all the best ways!
    • 5/5
      AMAZING!!! Actually my new favorite book, the way it’s written is so riveting and raw
    • 5/5
      This book is real. As real as any book can get. The way it speaks about reality is true. And that is what makes it so lovely. Because it is about the light, and the light it loves is real.
    • 5/5
      Excellent and wholesome! I recommend it. You will enjoy it!
    • 5/5
      This book inspired me to become a teacher when I read it in high school.
      It is based on the author's mother.
    • 3/5
      I have actually been putting off Reading this one for awhile but decided id go ahead and give it a go. Although Based on the experience of her Grandmother who left her Well to do family to teach in the rural Smokies. I guess ive read too many books with this books plot. The book was to m typical.
    • 5/5
      I have read and reread this book many times. It never disappoints. Full of riches of adventure, love, and life lessons.
    • 5/5
      Christy was recommended to me many years ago, but I never took the chance to actually sit down and read it until recently. When I finally did pick it up, it took me about two months to get through—but what an excellent story!I loved meeting everyone in here; Miss Alice was probably my favorite, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that is pretty typical among Christy’s readers. She was a very focused person, who wanted to show the Lord to people through her actions, and she loved people in a way that I yearn to learn to do better. She was quite an inspiration to me.If, like me, you love historical fiction, this is the best of the best, in my opinion. This combines a fair amount of fact with a semi-fictitious storyline that makes for a very easily read story, but one that also has a strong, realistic charm to it. Some of the passages in here are just glorious in their descriptive ways that bring you into the setting and let you gently explore the area. I’d love to explore some of the things Christy got to see—but I’m sure some of it is quite different now!If you’re looking for a solid story with its roots firmly bound in history and faith, I’d recommend this. It’s a goodie!
    • 5/5
      I can see why this book is so loved by many. There are few books to compare with her writing. Thank you for putting this in auto form. I listen to books as I work, and have really enjoyed this book!!
    • 5/5
      I think I was in high school when I first read this. But the saga of a pampered young woman moving to a desolate "town" in the Appalachian Mountains on a simple call of faith has stayed with me ever since.
    • 5/5
      Such a delicate and thoughtful book. Inspires anyone to become a better and more dedicated follower of Christ
    • 5/5
      Christy was a Beautiful redeeming story with fascinating historical fiction!
    • 3/5
      I loved the book all the way through until the very end...and then I was thinking, "What? That's it? That's the ending?" You have to make so many assumptions in that last line of the book. I hated the ending so much that it skewed my perception of the entire book. :(
    • 5/5
      I've had this book on my kindle for quite awhile, not because I didn't want to read it, but because I wanted to hold it and savor it!I read this when it was first released, and rereading this edition was a treat, yes, it comes back!This is a love story, mainly for God, and then God's people, and you will soon be immersed in the lives of these mountain people, but we walk in young Christy's shoes and follow her heart as she embraces and loves these people!Now I'll put this to the side, but leave it on my reader, one to look forward to reading again!I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Gilead. and was not required to give a positive review.
    • 5/5
      Confession time: I had never read the best-selling classic Christy by Catherine Marshall before I opened its pages last week. I know! I have been missing something very special for a very long time. This book made Christianity Today‘s most influential book list for a good reason. This 50 year-old classic tells the story of young Christy Huddleston, an earnest young woman who sets out to teach the children of Cutter Gap in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Idealistic and enthusiastic, Christy finds herself in a poverty-stricken area where superstitions run deep, literacy is rare, and disease often brings heartache to an already hard existence. And while Christy brings considerable energy and talent to the job, she ends up learning more than her pupils. The insights she gleans from her friends are ones that the reader can cherish as well. I loved, loved, loved this book! If you haven’t read it yet, you must! If its been awhile since you’ve visited the community of Cutter Gap, what are you waiting for? And if you are looking for a Christmas gift for that special someone (especially older teen girls), Christy is the perfect choice.Christy is set in the backwoods of a time-gone-by Tennessee. Based on the real life adventures of Catherine Marshall’s mother, this book opens up a window on what mountain people had to combat in the early 1900s — an isolated area fraught with hygiene problems, ignorance, and suspicion of outside influences. The story is told in Christy Huddleston’s first person voice, giving fresh eyes to the world of Cutter Gap. I loved how Christy grew as a person as she came to love and minister to the children and women. Teacher was of great influence, yet Christy learned more from her interactions with mentor Miss Alice, friends Fairlight and Opal, and pupils like Little Burl, Ruby Mae, and Lundy. She learned to overlook the smells and dirt and the sometimes backward ways of men and women, as her view became colored by the love she grew to have for the people. The book itself is filled with flowing prose that captures the beauty of the mountains, the nobility (and meanness) of the people, and the work of God in nature and man. All the characters have a complexity that makes them so very real. And if you think that a book that was written 50 years ago about a place and time now remote to the modern reader, then you will be pleasantly surprised. Christy may tell of a time 100 years in the past, but has a relevance for 2017. God’s love is the prevailing theme of the novel, and many of the characters struggle to accept it or live it out in real and meaningful ways. Miss Alice’s character is the plumb line for all others, and she brought a wisdom to the book when others were struggling.Christy set my imagination aflame! Cutter Gap is a place I know I will visit again.Very Highly Recommended!Audience: older teens to adults.(Thanks to Gilead Publishing and LitFuse for a complimentary copy. All opinions expressed are mine alone.)
    • 5/5
      This, aside from my Bible, is my favorite book of all times. Marshall truly captures the life of the Tennessee mountain people during that time, and the story never fails to bring tears to my eyes. I read it again and again.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic epic story with great narration. Highly recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      This was my favorite book as a child and even now when I reread the story it still affects me in such a positive way. Christy's decision to be a teacher for the poor community of Cutter Gap in the Smokey Mountains puts you on an emotional rollercoaster because of all the trials and frustrations she has to overcome to succeed there. Christy reads very fast for such a lengthy book and it's inevitable that you will grow a strong attachment to the characters.
    • 5/5
      Originally published in 1967, Christy is a historical fiction novel based on the experience of the author's mother teaching at a Christian mission in the Smoky Mountains in the early 1900s. Both the real Leonora and the fictionalized Christy at 19 leave their homes in North Carolina to teach children of poverty in the mountains of Tennessee. Having grown up with Leonora's stories, Catherine Marshall was able to make the people of Appalachia come alive. She told the story of their hardships, but also of their hearts and spirits. Marshall allows us to experience vicariously the difficulty of living without basic necessities in situations we would find primitive and grossly unclean. She then leads us to see the mountain people as valued individuals rather than being identified by group stereotypes. We celebrate their achievements, sorrow over their losses, and cheer on their best efforts. The mentoring character of Miss Alice Henderson, a Quaker mission worker from Pennsylvania, helps Christy, the young pastor David Grantland, and the reader come to deeper spiritual understandings. Christy is not a book that you will soon forget, and is likely one that you will want to reread from time to time. I owe, in a large part, my going into the field of education to having read this book while in high school. Having read it again over the years, it was like coming together with old friends as I read it again five years into my retirement. While the book is based on the community of Chapel Hollow in the Morgan Branch Valley of Tennessee, I am always transported back into the book each time I visit Cades Cove just outside of Gatlinburg, Tennessee and near the town of Townsend where the television story based on this book was filmed. The cabins there are much as I picture those belonging to the book's characters. I highly recommend this book to all readers, no matter what genre one usually prefers to read in. This timeless classic is too good to miss, and will live in your heart for years to come. I am grateful to NetGalley and Evergreen Farm an imprint of Gilead Publishing for providing me with a copy of Christy in exchange for my honest opinion. I was under no obligation to provide a positive review and received no monetary compensation.
    • 5/5
      I read this book when I was about 12, I have read it at least a dozen time and I still love it like I was reading it for the first time. This is the story of a young, idealistic woman leaving home for the first time to be a teacher in the Great Smokies. Even though she is warned of the rough conditions nothing prepares her for the reality of the poverty, superstitions and mountain people that she encounters. Catherine Marshall is an exceptional writer and this is the tale of her mother's life.
    • 3/5
      I don't think I'd still love the book if I read it today, but I wasn't as discriminating when I was younger, and I read the book when I was in the 6th grade or so and loved it so much I kept rereading it. So my rating is based on the love I had for it then.
    • 5/5
      A story of adventure, growing up, and coming to terms with the fact that what we dream and wish is often different from what the way things really are.
    • 5/5
      This is one of my favorite stories ever. While they come from a different age, the characters in the story are so wonderful and real that they feel like friends. The story is based on the life of the author's mother and is just a joy to read.
    • 4/5
      I thought this was a great book...a classic!
    • 4/5
      A long, but loving story of an young idealistic teacher coming to an Appalacian community at the turn of the last century. The character sketches are wonderful, and the genuine love the author has for the people and the beauty of this area is palpable. Based on the experiences of the author's mother.
    • 4/5
      Very well written with a mix of fiction and true events that took place in the authors parents lives. A beautiful story of a ywell to do young woman who goes to live in the mountains at a mission to be a school teacher. she struggles with the way she sees these people living and overcomes the want to leave. She struggles with the love she has for two very different men. A story that help[s you realize that you need to follow your heart. Quite touching. Made into a tv show a few years back that captured the heart of the book.
    • 5/5
      A book that has been on my to-read list since a librarian suggested it to me when I was around 9 years old, I'm sorry to admit it has taken me 18 years to read this powerful tale. Impoverished seems like such an inadequate word for the world encountered by Christy, the heroine of this at times heart-breaking story. There are heartwarming moments sprinkled in among the sadness as Christy finds her faith and her place in the world.
    • 4/5
      Whether you can stomach this story depends on how much Christian proselytizing you can handle. On the one hand, this is an adventurous and fun coming-of-age story centered on a school teacher out of place in rural Appalachia. But it's also the story of her conversion to Christianity and realization that trust in God can lead you anywhere. This didn't bother me when I read the book in 8th grade but I have a feeling I couldn't stomach it now.
    • 4/5
      This is an interesting and inspiring story. It's about a young woman who goes to be a missionary in the Smoky Mountains, not realizing that she will change as much or more than those she intends to change.
    • 5/5
      At the age of 19, Christy Huddleston felt called to go teach school in the Smoky Mountains. It was quite an adjustment for a girl from a well-to-do family to go to backwoods Cutter Gap. Over the two year span covered in this book, she learns to accept the people as they are and love them. In fact, she learns many spiritual lessons during this time, including how to claim her own faith rather than just parroting what she has heard.