washington (state)

Mick Johnson works hard for a placement on the varsity team during his freshman year, and decides to use steroids in order to hold onto his edge, despite the consequences to his health and social life.

Explores the discovery and identification of the Kennewick Man, a nine thousand year old skeleton whose remains where found in a river bed in Washington State in 1996.

Examines the history, traditional lifestyle, and current situation of the Yakama peoples of the Columbia Plateau.

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.

A Finnish American farm girl advises her father when a man wants their family settlement in Washington State in 1900.

When seventeen-year-old Isobel's mother marries a man she just met and they move to his gothic mansion on an island, strange occurrences cause Isobel to fear that she is losing her sanity as her artist father did.

After his parents' death, his own near-drowning, and months in foster care, twelve-year-old Eckhart Lyon moves to his Uncle Al's orchard on trial but yearns for a real home, and with new friend Eva's help he sets out on a quest to atone and prove himself worthy like his hero, Sir Gawain.

A graphic novel account of Detective Tom Jensen's work on the Green River Killer case, a twenty-year search for the killer of more than forty-eight women and girls in the Seattle, Washington, area. The case culminated in Jensen's interviewing and working with the killer, Gary Leon Ridgeway, for more than six months in 2003, to locate the remains of some of the victims and bring closure to their families.

A look at the Northwest Coast Indians, discussing the historic and continuing importance of salmon and cedar in their culture, with illustrations that blend the ways of the past with modern times, and photographs from an era when it was believed the Indian way of life had vanished.