In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
When Police Chief Charlie Grover discovers three mutilated bodies in a tornado-ravaged farmhouse, he first believes they were impaled by flying debris, but as he digs a little deeper, he realizes the victims were murdered by someone who was trying to use the tornado to cover his tracks.
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
While her father is away at war, eleven-year-old Princess ignores his warning that pet ownership leads to pain when she raises an orphaned possum on their Oklahoma ranch, then tries to send it back to the wild.
During a hard winter the father of a pioneering German family settling the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma freezes to death and his fourteen-year-old son must assume responsibility for the struggling family.
An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of Oklahoma, including maps, charts, and a recipe.
After her father remarries, twelve-year-old Stacy runs away in search of her real mother, only to be befriended by a wizened old woman who lives alone in the desert.
