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"Kate thinks she has everything all figured out. She's a champion swimmer with a bright future ahead of her. But when Kate's perfect world comes crashing down in one instant, she's forced to leave the swim team she's been a part of her whole life. As she tries to settle into a new home and a new school, she meets Michael, the cute boy who lives across the hall"--Jacket flap.

Tyler Watson and his teammate, the star center for the Portland Winter Hawks hockey team, discover that working with street kids has placed their own lives in danger.

The fate of Wildwood hangs in the balance in an epic tale that involves daring rescues, a malevolent spirit, and attempts to reanimate a mechanical prince.

When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness, a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon, and soon finds herself involved in a war among the inhabitants.

Prue and Curtis are thrown together again to save themselves and the lives of their friends, and to bring unity to the divided country of Wildwood.

Andrea Marr is a typical Portland teenager who goes to the mall until she joins a rock band and becomes involved in the underground rock scene, but she soon learns she has to choose between conformity or rebellion.

"Rylee tracks a serial killer in Portland, Oregon doing what she does best - lying, reinventing, and plotting vengeance for the victims of the brutal killer that has college students at Portland State University terrified. At the same time, she grapples with a betrayal so shocking that it sends her reeling, testing her as she's never been tested before. Is there anyone she can trust?"--Amazon.

Twins Nikki and Maya Younger always agreed on most things, but as they head into their senior year they react differently to the gentrification of their Portland, Oregon, neighborhood and the new--white--family that moves in after their best friend and her mother are evicted.

In 1992 the world is caught up in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the Balkan Wars. In Portland, Oregon, Julie's family life is routine and boring, and no one talks about her older brother, a one-time Olympic-hopeful swimmer who now lives in Berlin. And then the girls' swim team captain tries to recruit her. If Julie swims, she might just have a chance to find her brother or finally let him go.

Pat O'Toole, his brother Coop, and their new companion, Kate, have narrowly escaped the cultlike community below New York City but must try to stop the cult's leader, Kate's grandfather.