oregon

A retelling of the Modoc Indian story about Nulwee, a boy who learns tradition and courage from his grandmother which enables him to defeat the evil creature that has stolen life from the land.

Presents interviews with ten professional skateboarders in which they discuss the mental and emotional side of the sport, features sequential photographs of twenty-five intermediate and advanced tricks, and includes brief touring guides of Oregon and Colorado, and advice on how to build a skatepark.

Instead of playing tennis, seventeen-year-old Jeff is required to spend his summer working on an Oregon strawberry farm where new friendships with field hands and migrant workers, as well as the farmer's daughter, change his outlook.

Twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of seeing the world but has never left Oregon, and so when her best friend, Sophie, tells her of a baking contest whose winners travel to New York City, she eagerly enters despite concerns about her mother, who is opening a cupcake bakery. Includes recipes.

While traveling along the Oregon Trail, ten-year-old Cora and her newborn baby sister suffer the loss of their mother and are separated, but Cora stitches a book to tell the dark-eyed baby of their journey and family.

Andrea Marr is a typical Portland teenager who goes to the malls 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.

Describes the 1995 Supreme Court case which held that public school officials could do mandatory drug testing if they showed that a drug problem existed among the students, even though individual students were not suspected.

Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.

Provides information about the Oregon Trail and the experiences of pioneers who set out to make the arduous journey in covered wagons during the 1800s.

In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, from the school musical to their obsession with "Little Women.".