327H: Backwoods coming of age?

I'm looking for a book that I remember from fifth or sixth grade. That means published 1981-83. It was about two kids in the backwoods, maybe the Smokey Mountain area. I think maybe the girl is staying with her grandmother and the boy lives there. He seems to teach her the ways of the back woods. I remember there was skinny-dipping in the book. I think maybe the boy's name was Rusty? And that the author's name was two initials and then a last name.

2 thoughts on “327H: Backwoods coming of age?

  1. Stephanie

    No — it has to be something obscure. I’m a middle school ELA teacher and have a good knowledge of books but can not figure this one out.

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