A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana is a 2001 memoir by Haven Kimmel. The book recalls Haven's ("Zippy's") childhood in a small Indiana town and the people she lived with. Her mother is a bookworm, her father a gambler, her intense older brother and her unenthused sister. Zippy has adventures with her friends and neighbors, often revolving around animals: she saves a pig, raises a chicken and rescues her cat.
Moon Over Manifest is a novel by Clare Vanderpool telling two intertwined stories in the town of Manifest, Kansas. The first story features Alibine Tuckers who meets with Miss Sadie, a Hungarian fortune-teller who tells her the story of Jinx, the protagonist of the second story. Alibine begins a detective hunt to unmask a spy, causing the narrative to overlap with the story of Jinx's arrival in Manifest in 1917 and his attempts to integrate with the community. Both narratives focus on themes of belonging and community.