oklahoma

John Tilden reexamines the successes of his youth as his twentieth high school reunion approaches, which brings his old girlfriend--newly single--into town and the chance to play an exhibition basketball game with his old team, and he begins to wonder how he ended up with a dysfunctional family and a boring job.

When J.T., a a fifteen-year-old half-Native American and half Mexican boy, goes missing in Oklahoma, Sheriff Martin begins a search that conjurs up pain from his past, and a mysterious hole that appears in war veteran Hickson Crider's lawn that may end up being connected to the investigation.

Brenna, haunted by the fact that she turned in her best friend and fellow outcast White Bird after seeing him kneeling over the dead body of a classmate, returns to Oklahoma two years later to find that he has never been tried but is still languishing in a mental hospital, locked in his tormented brain, and though no one wants her to get involved, Brenna know she has to help him.

Jessie, a young girl living in the Oklahoma dust bowl during the Depression, tries to tame a wild dog and help her father recover from a nervous breakdown.

Eleven-year-old Annie and her friend Violet tell of the hardships endured by their families when dust storms, drought, and the Great Depression hit rural Oklahoma.

In hiding from the Soldiers of God, the Oklahoma antigovernment militia group whose members have now turned against him and his parents, a fifteen-year-old boy remembers what it was like to grow up among them.

Discusses the history, natural resources, places of interest, and famous citizens of the Sooner State.

In 1918 in the hills of eastern Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Hallie faces many changes in her life after her mother dies and she takes over caring for the family.

Examines the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 to 1895, a period during which the U.S. government gave land away very cheaply to anyone willing to build on it, and discusses encounters with Native Americans, land claims, town building, and other related topics.

In 1908 thirteen-year-old Dixie's new life on the Oklahoma frontier is complicated by a war of nerves between her and John Three, a young Kiowa Indian who insists that his pony was sold to her without his permission.