Title: Call Me Hope
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Child abuse, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Stress (Physiology), Schools, Mothers and daughters, Moneymaking projects, Coping, Father-deserted children, Family problems, Courage in girls, Money-making projects for children, Personal Transformations, Coping in children, Resilience (Personal quality), School stories, Brothers and sisters, Sixth-grade girls, Preteen girls, Single-parent family, Mother-daughter relationship, Boy/girl relations, Anger in women, Insults, Thrift shops, Courage, Eleven-year-old girls, Children's fiction, Child abuse, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Moneymaking projects, fiction, Schools, fiction, Oregon, fiction, Fiction - social issues, Fiction - occupations, Fiction - family life
Places: Oregon