oklahoma

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oklahoma

Paper trail

2005
In hiding from the Soldiers of God, the Oklahoma antigovernment militia group whose members have now turned against him and his parents, a fifteen-year-old boy remembers what it was like to grow up among them.

The grapes of wrath

2011
The influential story of the Joad family amidst the Great Depression, illuminating their journey from disparaging Oklahoma to the deceptively promising fields of California.

The ghost of Mary Prairie

a novel
2007
In 1961 Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jacob Leeds sees the apparition of a girl murdered long ago in his town and sets out to learn the truth about what happened to her.

Ethan between us

1998
In an Oklahoma oil drilling camp in 1960, fifteen-year-old Clare finds her relationship with her best friend threatened by her new romance with Ethan, a boy carrying a dark secret.

Oklahoma!

1983
The classic musical in which a handsome young cowboy falls in love. The young couple is menaced by the hired man.

The Babbs Switch story

2002
In 1924, twelve-year-old Ruthie finds her life in a small Oklahoma town complicated by the behavior of her older sister Daphne, an object of ridicule and dislike because of her limited mental abilities.

Out of the dust

2006
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.

Sacred ground

1995
Jennifer Talldeer is a private investigator in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the granddaughter of a powerful Osage Medicine Man. Her two worlds draw closer together when a routine insurance investigation begins to look like a fraud.

Where the red fern grows

2006
The story of a young boy's love for two hunting dogs and his coming of age in Oklahoma in the 1930's.

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