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It's called kudzu...deep in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky, these dense green vines grow like Jack's beanstalk, blanketing every tree, power pole, and anything else in its path. Everett Pratt hates kudzu for what it will do to the timber on his mountain. He will do anything to keep it from invading and choking life from his family's livelihood. Sam, Everett's nine-year-old son, likes kudzu and will do anything he can to protect it. He believes that 'Whatever God makes has got to have some good in it.' Can the Pratt family survive kudzu's smothering threat as everything significant in Sam's life occurs under the kudzu?

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