Ociee Nash trilogy

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A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street, Ociee on Her Own & The Further Adventures of Ociee Nash by Milam McGraw Propst. Young adult, set in America in the late 1890's featuring an adorable tomboy called Ociee. I hear this is based on the true life of Propst's grandmother in Asheville, North Carolina and it's a lovely slice of historical life. Ociee has a loving Papa and two brothers, her Mama died of measles and she has a vast extended family captured by her gift for making friends. This has a bit of a Huck Finn / Anne of Green Gables feel to it and the books follow Ociee over three years starting from the family farm, the her aunt's house in Asheville (to become a lady) and on to Abbeville, Mississippi. I'm charmed by her adventures, the deep love her family shares for one another and by the writing style itself.