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After a devastating tsunami in Japan, cousins Jet and Kai spend the summer together in Astoria, Oregon, training for the Young's Bay Treasure Island Race and become close friends in the process.

Dave is fourteen years old, entering high school, and living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood. But he isn't the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms that summer. Martin, a pine marten (a small animal of the deep woods, of the otter/mink family), is leaving his own mother and siblings and setting off on his own as well. As Martin and Dave's paths cross on forest trails and rocky mountaintops, they and we witness the full, unknowable breadth and vast sweep of life, and the awe inspiring interconnectedness of the world and its many inhabitants, human and otherwise.

After the sudden death of their mother, sisters Sam and Ollie McAlister move to rural Oregon to live in a teepee with Bear, their beekeeper father, but soon after they arrive, Bear is arrested for the murder of a young woman found floating in Crooked River.

After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.

When a wealthy Japanese American resort owner in a small, sleepy Oregon coastal town becomes the prime target of an angry mob, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Ruby Opal Pearl "Jewels" Stokes comes to his defense.

Tara Bahrampour describes her feelings and experiences about her bicultural life, discussing her childhood in Iran, her family's participation in the Islamic revolution, their flight to the United States, and her return to Iran as an adult.

After a whale swims by and knocks Cara into freezing Oregon waters, she is saved by cute newcomer David. Instantly attracted, Cara is devastated to learn David is off-limits to her. She finds no solace in Rachel, her best friend, who has become interested in witchcraft and is way too obsessed with her new boyfriend. Then handsome Garren comes along and Cara starts to fall for him, but worries Garren is possibly too perfect.

Introduces ten sites located in Oregon while discussing the history of the state.

Presents the author's first-hand account of dealing with life after a debilitating brain virus and recreating a normal life while at the same time dealing with his aging mother's dementia.

Takes readers on a tour of Oregon, describing the state's history, culture, land, economy, government, and sights, and including unique facts, color maps and photos, the state song, suggested activities, lists of famous people, cultural institutions, and annual events, and other resources.