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washington (state)

Gym candy

2007
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.

Their skeletons speak

Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican world
2012
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.

The Yakama

1997
Examines the history, traditional lifestyle, and current situation of the Yakama peoples of the Columbia Plateau.

Unraveling Isobel

2012
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 the river the sun

2013
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.

Green River killer

a true detective story
2011
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.

People of salmon and cedar

1996
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.

Eva of the Farm

2013
Twelve-year-old Eva writes beautiful poems on the farm in Washington State that her family has owned for generations, but when money runs out and then her baby brother gets sick, the family faces foreclosure and the way of life she loves is threatened.

Our only May Amelia

2001
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.

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