Freakishly tall Brandon Vanderkool is pushed by his dairy farmer father into joining the Border Patrol and proves to be very adept at catching drug smugglers and illegal aliens trying to cross the ditch between British Columbia and Washington State, but his efforts do not necessarily please local residents who are not averse to turning a blind eye--for a small fee--to the traffic between borders.
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in 1931, and was murdered seven years later. He reappears in 1992 on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who starts Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic rock-and-roll band.
After three years of wanting only to be invisible, sixteen-year-old Jordan begins to recover from his father's suicide and start living again when a neighbor's vintage Corvette Stingray opens up new possibilities for him.
Presents an introduction to the state of Washington, is simple text with illustration, including information on it history, people, land, economy, and government.
A photographic guide to Washington, discussing the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the state; and including maps, sidebars, a time line, and a list of sources for additional information.
Timid twelve-year-old Teddy Mathews and his mother move to a small, remote desert town in eastern Washington, where the tree next door, mutated by nuclear waste, eats children and the friends Teddy makes turn out to be dead.
Amy, a sixteen-year-old girl recovering from an abusive relationship, moves to the country in Washington to live with her great-aunt, and there she discovers a mysterious clearing in the woods where she meets Henry, a boy stuck in the summer of 1944.
Apprehensive about spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job, twelve-year-old Josh soon finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner.
When Josh, his parents, grandfather, and eight-year-old brother move into the old Tilton House, they discover such strange things as talking rats, a dimmer switch that makes the house invisible, and a powder that makes objects grow.
