washington (state)

When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.

Continues the story of the human Bella and the vampire Edward whose love is threatened by their difference, a werewolf named Jacob, and other outside influences.

This book introduces the geography, history, people, annual events, and environmental issues of Washington State.

In the fall of 1939, Waverley Scott arrives on the remote Isadora Island in the Puget Sound, where she begins to attend the Temple School and forms a close bond with the school's headmistress, a woman who encourages Waverley to live up to her full potential and fulfill her dreams.

A ten-year-old boy, placed once again with new foster parents, becomes involved in a search for Bigfoot.

In 1925, in a Washington State coal-mining community populated by European immigrants, twelve-year-old Slava Petrovich, nicknamed Cuss, tries to stay in school but finds himself forced to go to work when his brothers are driven out of town by trouble related to bootlegging.

May Amelia Jackson has grown up a tomboy thanks to her seven brothers and a father who claims girls are useless, so when her father needs May to translate for a gentleman interested in buying their farm, she jumps at the chance to earn his respect.