Call me Hope
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Gretchen Olson.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780316012393
Subjects: Child abuse -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Moneymaking projects -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Stress (Physiology) -- Fiction; Oregon -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: 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. Includes "Hope notes" and readers' guide.