Wonderful uplifting book, A perfect book for young adults, especially girls, all the way through adults. An absolute classic.

A classic book that has resonant themes that can stick with the reader for decades, if my experience is any guide. A young and relatively innocent woman embarks on an adventurous life teaching in the hills of Appalachia in the early 20th century, and encounters unforgettable characters, heartbreak, challenge, and luminous experiences of faith. Highly recommended.

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.

"Could it be...that your deepest fear is calling anyone Master and Lord?"
Christy, inspired by a true story, is about a nineteen year old girl who leaves her comfortable home and family to teach over sixty children in a one room schoolhouse in the Smoky mountains. She feels good about herself for deciding to go help people, but she doesn't really know what she's getting herself into. She didn't expect to fall in love with people who live in absolute poverty and rarely bathe. She didn't expect to nurse a stubborn teenager through a typhoid fever epidemic. She didn't expect to teach a grown woman to read and through that find a sweet friend. She didn't expect to hear about feuding and see a man in a casket who was killed over moonshine. She didn't expect to be proposed to.

I related to this story in some ways. I related to her culture shock and surprise about the somewhat "old fashioned way" people still live. I related to falling in love with people from a completely different culture. I related to being away from home and the comforts of it. Yes, there are a lot of differences between me teaching three American children in Africa and her teaching 60 children in the Smoky Mountains over a hundred years ago, but still, so much of it was the same.

A few of my favorite things…
-Dr. Neill Mcneill. His back story. His love for the people. His heart change.
-Christy's passion to make immediate changes, but learning that that's not always what is best.
-The beautiful mountain scenery.
-The way the small mountain children and Ruby Mae adore Christy.
-The focus in the "mountain culture" of being with people.
-The way Christy was upset with a man who was pursuing her because all he wanted to do was hug and kiss her instead of actually talking to her.
-Christy's spiritual growth.
-Miss Alice.

I didn’t care for…
-David. But I did like how is story went better than what I remember from the 90s TV show based on this book.

Know that…
-A woman describes being raped. It's uncomfortable to read, but necessary to the story and written without too much detail.
-There are mentions of sex and some interesting mountain wedding traditions.
-Some of David's beliefs aren't quite accurate, but he does grow spiritually.

Perfect for…
Older teenage girls and women.

As much as I loved this book it started to feel a bit long so I started listening to it on audiobook at 2x speed.

I've watched the series/movie years ago and everyone knows about the classic Christy, but this is the first time I've read to it. I enjoyed the character growth of Christy, from making decisions at first for selfish reasons, but then grew in an unselfish young women who learned to look deeper than what she sees and came to unconditionally love these mountain people.

There was a lot of wisdom imparted and lessons learned through the characters in this story.

I first read this book as a teenager. I was intrigued to read it again seeing that it was being re-released. The story is well-crafted as I remembered it.

I first read this book many years ago when I was in school learning to be a teacher. It is amazing the challenges Christy Huddleston faced in the mountains of Tennessee in order to be a teacher. She was not just responsible for the academic education, but she had to gain the trust of the rural mountain community. After teaching now for 21 years, I can't imagine teaching in the same circumstances. Though this is a work of fiction, it is based on the life experiences of the author's mother. I have always been inspired by these pioneers of teaching who taught in one room schools to children of all ages and abilities. I highly recommend this book.

This is the 1st time reading Christy, I am so glad it has been republished or I would have missed a very good book. Chisty was very young when she went to the Smokey Mountains to become a school teacher to the improvised mountain people. I loved the realistic characters in the book, the author did a great job bringing them to life.

I appreciate that this story is clean with many references to God. I learned a lot about life in the mountains and the methods used to treat illness and disease. Life was far from easy for them. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a well written book.

Christy is nineteen. She has never been away from home. She has finally talked her father into letting her go teach school at a mission in the mountains. Through this experience she learns about the people, and the place. These people that live in the Tennessee Mountains are proud strong people..
This is a work of fiction but based on true experiences. This book has been around for years, but is worth picking up and reading anytime. An ideal book for today as much as it was for yesterday's.. the relevance of the lessons taught are as important today as they were in the 1900's.

I have delayed writing this review hoping that more appropriate or profound words would come to me. I can't really think what else to say besides I love this book. It encompasses so many emotions and trials and triumphs and lessons. The characters feel so close while you're reading about them, and even long after you've finished. This is a book I will always come back to and read over and over. I can't wait to pass it on to my children as they become old enough to read it. I highly recommend it.

I will say I think the new cover change is an interesting choice. I like the idea of using a real picture of the author on the cover. But I wonder if there is a way to do that and still liven it up a bit. I'm not sure the black and white photo and overall brown color scheme is going to be very eye catching for a lot of readers. But then again, I'm not an expert.

An excellent story that I had never read before and thoroughly enjoyed! By turns heart-wrenching, thought-provoking, funny, and foreboding, "Christy" brings to life a culture foreign to so much of America. I particularly enjoyed watching Christy navigate her faith journey and wrestle with the motives behind her choices. This is a classic. (I do wish Catherine Marshall had provided some indication about events that were real so we would have some idea about where poetic license began.)

Excellent classic fiction title. Highly recommended for high school readers and older. Great purchase for libraries and schools.

CHRISTY by Catherine Marshall is one of my ALL time favorite books and I am excited to see that a new hardcover is being released due to its 50th anniversary. Based in part on experiences of Marshall's mother, CHRISTY shares the very moving story of Christy Huddleston, a nineteen-year-old school teacher in Appalachia (Cutter Gap, Tennessee) beginning in 1912. She battles extreme poverty and entrenched traditions while struggling with her own faith in an inspiring manner. I remember asking for a copy when I was in high school – even though I had read it, I wanted to be able to re-read it again and again. I think current high school students will also relate to her questioning and to her desire to make a difference.

A small concern, frankly, is the cover of this new addition – while realistic, I did not find it as appealing as some of the images associated with earlier versions and the mid-1990s award-winning CBS series. If you know this title, consider reading it again and it you are not familiar with the character, CHRISTY is a must-read in the vein of Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman and Nancy Freedman or Adriana Trigiani's Big Stone Gap novels.

I love this book! The characters are wonderful and the writing superb. It is a delightful story I can read over and over. This has so much from love and friendship to overcoming and strength you'll feel warm and tears as well as happy you read it. Visiting Cutter Gap and getting to know the characters and this world is worth your time.

This book is a classic. I loved it years ago and after reading it again, I love it even more. This is an absorbing and inspiring story, and the characters are ones that will linger in your heart and mind. If you’ve never read this wonderful novel, please don’t miss it. This book will always have a place on my favorites shelf.

I've always loved this book. I was excited when I saw they were releasing an anniversary edition! Catherine Marshall tells the true story of her mother who left her comfortable life in Asheville in 1912 at the age of 19 to go and be a school teacher in rural Appalachia. As can be expected from the time period, there is a strong religious tone throughout the story.

I'll be honest and admit, that I ignore much of the "preaching" aspects of this story. It's just not really my thing. I loved reading about the interactions and relationships Christy was able to build among the mountain people. Their way of life and stories are just fascinating. It's a great peek into a time period that is largely forgotten. Pre-WWI america does not seem to get much interest.

Great story about a strong woman who listened to her heart and did what she thought was best for her. Thank you to NetGalley for providing an ARC for review.

Always a delight to read a classic again. I loved this book as a teenager and I love it even more as a fifty something. This book is a classic. I was taken back in time. Will be buying these books for my 20 year old daughter.

It was an absolute delight to reread this favorite book by Catherine Marshall. I believe this is an very well written and timeless piece about the Appalachian culture. Catherine Marshall is a gifted storyteller and I truly enjoyed this Christian fiction story based on Catherine's mother Lenora. The author provides such delightful, vivid descriptions of the countryside and the people themselves that I felt as if I was there. This book to my way of thinking definitely comes under the heading of "classic" as it is still just as great today as it was when it was first published. If you haven't read Christy then you are missing out!

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.

I gave this book a 5 out of 5 star review. It was an enjoyable and I would recommend. to others. Generously provided to me through NetGalley