hope

After spending the last seven years of her life in and out of hospitals, sixteen-year-old Cam Cooper is less than thrilled with her family's decision to move to Promise, Maine, where she discovers purple dandelions, a boy named Asher, and an envelope that could help her rekindle her ability to believe in both life and love.

The author shares what he has learned about hope caring for patients with cancer, blood diseases, HIV, and hepatitis C, and discusses his personal experience with hope which led him to investigate whether there is a scientific basis for believing hope contributes to recovery.

Photographs and rhythmic text explore the meaning of hope and celebrate its power, especially in difficult times.

On Christmas Eve, an old farmer whose wife has died acquires new hope after helping a pregnant mare in a snowstorm.

Four budding artists, a tap dancer, a poet, a singer, and an acrobat, who just happen to be pigs, live out their dreams and avoid becoming bacon.

Despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends, living in England in 1962, still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.

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.