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While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class.

Follows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writing.

Introduces the geography, plants, animals, and culture of the state of Oregon.

Duke, a circus clown, takes Oregon, a circus bear, back home to Oregon.

Examines the geography, history, culture, and people of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Idaho.

Sixteen-year-old Amber, hoping to spend one perfect day alone at the beach before her world is turned upside down, meets and feels a strong connection to Cade, who is looking for his own escape, for a very different reason.

Already downhearted due to the loss of her mother and her father's overwhelming grief, thirteen-year-old Fran decides to give up her dream of becoming the first female in professional baseball after a coach attacks her just for being a girl.

Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson moves with his father from Spokane, Washington, to Portland, Oregon, and when his father is killed in a mishap involving a married secretary, Charlie finds himself seeking refuge at a horse track, where he befriends a racehorse and embarks on a dangerous trek to find his aunt in Wyoming.

After Missy is abducted during a vacation and evidence of her murder shows up at a shack in the forests of Oregon, Mackenzie Philips, her father, receives a strange note inviting him to return to the scene of the tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish religious questions.