# Call Me Hope

**Author:** Gretchen Olson
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 2007
**Page count:** 280
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780316012362`
**ISBN-10:** `0316085456`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/call-me-hope
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

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.

## Themes

- child abuse
- stress (physiology)
- schools
- mothers and daughters

## Where this book is assigned

### Kentucky Bluegrass Award (KBA)

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Bluegrass Award (KBA) — Kentucky's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-56-83-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Bluegrass Award (KBA) — Kentucky's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-56-83-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Bluegrass Award (KBA) — Kentucky's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-56-83-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)

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