oklahoma

Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961.

Abby, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, learns the secrets of folk medicine from the healer Mother Barker as she grows up.

An illustrated introduction to Oklahoma, providing information about the land and climate, natural resources, plants and animals, tourism, industry, goods and services, history, population, politics and government, cultural groups, sports, and arts and entertainment of the state.

Seventeen-year-old Callie longs to help a trouble-prone young man, but she finally comes to realize some people cannot be changed.

Problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town in 1957, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.

Provides an overview of the state of Oklahoma, covering its history, geography, economy, people, and points of interest.

After a two-year wait during which her mother died, twelve-year-old Annie Mae and her family join thousands of hopeful settlers as they race to claim land in the newly-opened Oklahoma Territory.

Great-grandma Annie reminisces about life on her family's Oklahoma farm during the terrible drought of the 1930s when the region was known as the "Dust Bowl.".

Introduces this central state that has been a "Dust Bowl, " Indian Territory, oil rich, and a promised land to settlers.

A pictorial introduction to Oklahoma, providing information about its early history, land, and resources, with a look at notable people, places, and events in the state.