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In Oregon, eleven-year-old Hope begins coping with her mother's verbal abuse by devising survival strategies for herself based on a history unit about the Holocaust, and meanwhile she works toward buying a pair of purple hiking boots by helping at a second-hand shop.

Rachael Scdoris recounts her experiences running the Iditarod Race as the only legally blind competitor, and reflects on how she has faced the challenges of blindness and excelled when no one else believed in her.

In the early 1960s, Kitty is one of only two white children in her class on Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, where her father is a government forester, and although past injustices and pain are still very much alive there, she eventually finds friendships and opportunities to make a difference.

Lily, a trained veterinary assistant, struggles after her mother is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, but after she begins to administer a bee sting therapy when traditional treatments fail, Lily comes to recognize her mother no longer wants to live.

Follows the University of Oregon's women's basketball team through the 1994 season, discussing how coach Jody Runge fought to win equal funding and treatment for herself and her team, and looking at the efforts of Runge and the players to become a force within the league.

With her father away and her mother ill with fever, ten-year-old Bess works hard on a log cabin quilt to save the family farm.

Scarlet, an introverted high school junior surrounded by outcasts who find her a good listener, learns to break old patterns and reach for hope when her pregnant sister moves home with her new husband, with whom Scarlet feels an instant connection.

In 1959 in Oregon, thirteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth rides with her father to kill the wild stallion that is luring away horses from their ranch and ruining their livelihood, but she secretly wants to save his life.

Sixteen-year-old Amber, hoping to spend one perfect day alone at the beach before her world is turned upside down, meets and feels a strong connection to Cade, who is looking for his own escape, for a very different reason.