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Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
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
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both witches! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Serenna Izard. It seems that Serenna and her husband built a timepiece into...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Boone Mason has lived his entire life in Pikesville, Michigan. The small town that once was booming, has become dull and boring to him. This all changes when hints of a legendary, massive buck begin to appear in the town. Boone's main passion in life is hunting, the love of the sport has been passed down from many generations. Both his grandfather and dad grew up being avid hunters, so it comes as no shock that Boone would have...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
Growing up on Beaver Island, Grand-̈pre told Norvia storiesstories about her ancestor Migizi, about Biboonke-o-nini the Wintermaker, about the Crane Clan and the Reindeer Clan. He sang her songs in...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Tucker Thompson is just an ordinary 8th grader from Detroit, Michigan. He loves school and baseball. Everything seems great for the left-handed pitcher with a big, breaking curveball. That is, until one dreadful event changes his life. Tucker learns that his parents are getting divorced. If that wasn't bad enough, his mom is making a move. He will be forced to attend a new school, across town in the inner city of Detroit. Struggling to handle his...
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Blair Thomas lives in the friendly, lakeside town of Lainey, Michigan, on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron. Lainey boasts superb hunting opportunities and offers visitors miles of sandy shoreline and weekend tours of the historic Tesla Lighthouse. It's the beginning of the fall, duck hunting season, and Blair and her dad are busy preparing for her very first duck hunt. The forecast is calling for extremely high winds and rain, absolutely perfect...
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
168 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Flint, Michigan, 1986, hockey--and life--keep handing Evan and Bobby losses. The Strikers -- their hockey team -- has a roster of rejects in hand-me-down coats, lacks good equipment, has a deep bench, and a coach who shows up on time. From a town down on its luck their whole lives -- they may not understand each other but together, they find reasons to keep taking the ice."-- Back cover
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house--and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
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.
13) Chasing Helicity
Author
Series
Chasing Helicity volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm.
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. --
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
564 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Detroit, 1930s. Mary, the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants, lives in a tiny apartment with her parents, her brothers, and her twin sister. She questions why her parents ever came to America, while yearning for true love, to own her own business, and to be an independent, modern American woman. Flashbacks to her parents' childhoods connect their stories with Mary's: issues of arranged marriage, learning about independence, and...
Author
Series
Gavin McNally's year off volume 4
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The McNallys are visiting Michigan's Mackinac Island. Gavin and his brother, Gus, take a nature walk. After the walk, Gavin wants to hunt for treasure at a nearby fort. So when Gus goes missing, Gavin is annoyed. But he soon comes to realize what hunting for treasure really means." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What's going on in Bone Lake, Michigan? Penny Hardjoy's conspiracy theorist father has gone missing-- and other people are turning up dead in the woods. Penny's an aspiring journalist, and the deeper she digs, the weirder things start to get. Men in black suits stroll around Main Street. Chunks of Penny's memory go missing. She teams up with the nerdy boy next door and the town's star quarterback to research the long-ago meteorite crash in Bone Lake's...
17) Little Michigan
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (22 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
State birds, flowers, trees, and animals brought to board book form for the youngest book lovers. Toddlers will delight in these books filled with rhyming riddles framed by brightly painted clues, introducing elements that make each state so special.
18) A million Junes
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For as long as Jack 'June' O'Donnell has been alive, her parents have had only one rule: stay away from the Angert family. But when June collides--quite literally--with Saul Angert, sparks fly, and everything June has always know is thrown into chaos. Who exactly is this gruff, sarcastic, but seemingly harmless boy who has returned to their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, after three mysterious years away? And why has June--an O'Donnell to her...
19) Betty before X
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories of life in the late nineteenth century, many reflecting the Christian faith of the author's family, including tales of a homemade anti-wrinkle concoction, a visit that proves money can't buy happiness, and a hard lesson in remembering to put things away.