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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything...
Author
Series
Cupcake cousins volume 1
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
During a family vacation at Lake Michigan, nine-year-old cousins Willow and Delia, desperate to avoid being flower girls in their aunt's wedding, try to demonstrate that they would do better as chefs for the reception.
Author
Series
Cupcake cousins volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Cousins Willow and Delia return to the kitchen as their family welcomes a new baby in the second book in the illustrated Cupcake Cousins series"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Cupcake cousins volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Cousins Willow and Delia must save the day when a blizzard threatens to ruin Cat and Mr. Henry's wedding in the third book in the illustrated Cupcake Cousins series"--
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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It's always been just Kate and her mom-and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear her mother won't live past the fall. Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld-and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests. Kate is sure...
7) Hidden
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
10) Kyle's island
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Kile, almost thirteen, spends much of the summer yearning to explore a nearby island, striving to be a good brother, fishing with an elderly neighbor, and fuming at his parents over their separation that is forcing his mother to sell the family's cabin on a Michigan lake.
11) Crossing stones
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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World War I - Women's Experience
World War I Collection Spotlight - Books for Teens
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Youth]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Homefront
World War I Collection Spotlight - Books for Teens
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Youth]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Homefront
Description
In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.
13) Chasing Helicity
Author
Series
Chasing Helicity volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Helicity, not a victim of a horrific tornado but a survivor, connects with a local meteorologist and other stormchasers who support her plan to become one of them.--Provided by Publisher.
14) Fifteenth summer
Author
Series
Sixteenth summer novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Chelsea and her family are spending the summer at a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan where Chelsea meets and falls for Josh--the cute and shy employee at the new bookstore in town."--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of beloved author-illustrator Patricia Polacco's own amazing grandmother, this wonderful celebration of reading and community is as exhilarating as it is heartwarming. Young Stella loves books so much, her books begin to take over the farmhouse. "Why, Stell, you need your own library to hold those books," her pa tells her, so he and the neighbors build her one! She calls it "the Mermaid's Purse," since the midwife said Stella was...
Author
Series
President series volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Brianna Justice is the president of her Detroit middle school's sixth grade, but she is finding the position a real headache--beside the normal troubles of being in a new school, and the sudden coldness of her old friends, there is a class trip to Washington, D.C. coming up and she needs to figure out how to raise the rest of the money so that the class can go.
Author
Series
My near-death adventures volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's suitors, lumberjacks, and more.
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Aref is excited to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will start a new school, and while Aref misses his grandfather, his Sidi, he knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting for him.
19) Love, love
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Frances Chin, a 10-year old Chinese-American girl, lives in the suburbs of Detroit with her immigrant parents and older sister, Clara. At school Frances copes with bullies and the loneliness that comes with not quite fitting in. At home, she feels a different kind of aloneness. Her parents are preoccupied with work and worry about Clara, whose hair is inexplicably falling out. But, with the help of her friend Annie, Frances is determined to play...
20) Titans
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Astrid Sullivan belongs to a family of compulsive gamblers, and now that her father has been laid off from his job in Detroit and lost all their money betting on the Titans, which are half-horse, half car, and race around impossible tracks, her family is falling apart--but when Astrid's new friends give her the chance to participate in this year's Titan races, she thinks she sees a way to win some money and keep her family together....
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