hope

Young Sarah's father helps her to learn about loss and hope when her favorite willow tree is cut down.

Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.

A tiny pea, scorned by the other peas because he dreams of growing into a tree, begins to lose hope when he is picked to be part of a tuna casserole, but fate and a helpful worm come to the rescue.

During a momentous summer, thirteen-year-old Aislinn's dreams include that her father will stop drinking and give her more freedom, that her fifth sibling will be born safely, that she will not lose her best friend or her potential boyfriend, and that she can teach members of her community both to express their dreams and to help others' dreams come true.

Presents interviews with more than fifty people from all walks of life including congressmen, musicians, priests, immigrants, veterans, CEOs, blue-collar workers, and students on the topic of hope and how they keep it alive in trying times.

On the planet Azureblue, thirteen-year-old Zenda is able to find the three musings from her broken gazing ball and can attend the Gazing Ball ceremony that will reveal her personal gifts.

While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.

Loosely based on "Cinderella," this story is set in Alaska, the fairy godmother is an eagle, and the hero, the son of a cannery owner, finds his true love through her Sitka slipper, a heavy rubber boot she left at the Silver Salmon Festival.

A collection of essays, poems, artwork, and e-mail correspondence with former president Jimmy Carter that shares the message of peace and hope by Mattie Stepanek, who died in June 2004 of Muscular Dystrophy.