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Rebecca Monhollon lives in Winchester, Kentucky where she writes books and raises Rocky Mountain Horses. Mischief on the Mountain was inspired by her life growing up in the mountains of Harlan, Kentucky and stories of adventures passed down to her through her family.
Rebecca's father’s family is from Tennessee and lived in Turkey’s Roost in Gatlinburg and some of the family lived in Cades Cove. This novel is about two girls growing up in the 1800’s in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The stories are about the mischief that these girls encounter. These stories are all based in truth.
The idea for the book came to Rebecca from stories told to her by her 80 year old grandmother, Lucy, the main character in the book. She told Rebecca these adventures she had as a child that made everyone in the family laugh. Lucy's family is from Tennessee where she lived as a child in the Smoky Mountains. She then moved to Harlan, Kentucky when she married Louis Boggs and raised her family there. Rebecca grew up in mountains of Kentucky. The stories in this book are Lucy’s and some adventures Rebecca experienced herself and are about inventing your own games before the invention of modern technology. These stories are Rebecca's imagination, but each story has something in it that is true.
Rebecca's roots go back to her great grandfather, William Creech, donated the land for what is now the Pine Mountain Settlement School.
Rebecca is currently working on Mischief Returns to the Mountain which should be published summer 2016
Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite
Rebecca Monhollon’s Mischief on the Mountain is a story set late in the nineteenth century on a homestead in Tennessee in the shadow of what the locals called the Smoky Mountains, though the name was still unofficial until 1934. A mixture of history, pathos and comedy, it features eleven-year-old Lucy Watkins and her cousin Macy who is two years older. They are together because their fathers are brothers and their grandmother is dying. There are chores to be done, but that does not stop Macy leading Lucy into mischief, some of it dangerously risky.
Mischief on the Mountain by Rebecca Monhollon is like two stories in one, intermingling and merging. It rolls back to a simpler time before modern technology, and paints a vivid picture of the way life was lived, a life of of self-sufficiency. A cow was kept for milk, hens for eggs, and to eat, and everything that would grow was grown, harvested, and stored. Children made their own fun, and Lucy and Macy make more than most in a beautifully written story that often had me in fits of laughter.
Macy’s idea of teaching Lucy and others to swim was to throw them into an icy stream… and so it goes on. A Christmas tree brought home and decorated Macy-style was not appreciated, but even being “whooped” on the legs with a switch didn’t stop the mischief, though a different punishment bore fruit when the two girls saved a life and made a new friend with a tragic past. Ms Monhollon uses phonetic speech a good deal of the time; it’s effective and amazingly easy to read. Mischief on the Mountain is a fascinating book that will appeal to readers of any age.
