Call me Hope

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