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Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In 1850 the Detroit River was a major track along the Underground Railroad -- the last step to freedom. The journey across the river was dangerous, especially in winter and especially for a 12-year-old boy. When Louis's father left him in charge of the farm he offered his son this advice, "If you don't know what to do, just do what you think I would have done." Louis relies upon his father's words of wisdom when a runaway slave and her two children...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although it will mean that their father can no longer make a living running a ferry boat, thirteen-year-old Mark and his brother Luke are excited about the building of a five-mile bridge across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan in 1957.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In 1944 a vacant army base in upstate New York became the temporary home of over 900 men, women and children who had fled Europe towards the end of World War II. With little more than the clothing on their backs, Rebekkah and her mother are just two of the many refugees who come to live in the camp. Adjusting to a strange new world and a new language, Rebekkah puts aside her own fears to try and recreate tiny bits of home for her mother. A fictional...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In July 1863 the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fought outside the sleepy Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. In The Last Brother the story of one small boy is told amidst the dramatic events of those early days of July. Though he is only 11 years old, Gabe is a bugler in the Union Army. He takes his responsibility very seriously; after all, there are over 60 different battle calls for buglers to learn. But what is even more important to Gabe...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (34 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
When Lily learns about a lottery for land plots to grow Victory Gardens, she tries to apply. But when the garden club president tells her she's too young to participate, Lily refuses to give up. She knows where there's a house with a big yard. The Bishops live in the largest house in town. It also has the largest yard. But the Bishops' son was the first soldier from the town to die in the war. Now Mrs. Bishop has hidden herself away in their house....
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Cora and her family leave their home in Missouri, their hearts are filled with the hopes and dreams of a bright future gleaming with promise and opportunity. But the journey west by wagon train is harsh, and tragedy strikes swiftly and unexpectedly. Now Cora and her father must steel themselves for a different future from what they had carefully planned. How can they move forward when their hearts are broken? But move on they must,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Janie is not exactly sure why her daddy is riding a bus from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C. She knows why she has to go-to stay out of her mother's way, especially with the twins now teething. But Daddy wants to hear a man named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak and, to keep out of trouble, Janie is sent along. Riding the bus with them is a mishmash of people, black and white, young and old. They seem very different from Janie. As the bus travels...
11) The Listeners
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesn't live in the great house. She is a slave. It's dark in the morning when Ella May heads to the fields to pick cotton. And it's sunset when she comes home. But her day isn't done, not yet. Ella May still has important work to do. She's got to listen. Each night Ella May and her friends secretly listen outside the windows of their master's house. The children listen in the hopes of gleaning information about...
12) The Lucky Star
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
It is 1933 and the Great Depression has ravaged the nation. Millions of people are out of work; thousands of families are struggling to keep a roof overhead and food on the table. But Momma still finds ways to count her blessings (lucky stars) from Ruth's new shoes to Poppa's new job. But where Momma sees the 'bright,' Ruth only sees the dark. Her shoes are hand-me-downs from a neighbor and Poppa's new job keeps him away from home for months. And...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia 1777 is no place for the faint of heart. The rumble of war with the British grows louder each day, and spies for and against the Patriots are everywhere. No one is above suspicion. Still, everyday life must go on and young Maddy Rose must help her mother, especially since her father's death at the Battle of Princeton and now with her beloved brother Jonathan off with Washington's army. But when childhood games become life-and-death actions,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (36 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
April 1, 1946 - an enormous tsunami wave strikes Hilo, Hawai'i, causing death and destruction. Even those islanders who are fortunate to have survived find their lives forever altered. Young Kimo loves his grandfather very much - they go everywhere together, sharing island stories and experiences. But there is one story his grandfather has yet to share and that is the reason behind their yearly pilgrimage to Laupahoehoe Point. Here, in silent remembrance,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Young Moses and his family are barely scraping by. He helps his father in their fish stall selling each day's catch to passersby but times are hard in 1889 Baltimore. It's difficult to provide for a family of ten. But when they hear of free farmland out in Oklahoma, it sounds like the answer to their prayers. The family sells all they own and heads west to fulfill a lifelong dream. Their wagon journey, however, is plagued with troubles from ice storms...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In 1926, 12-year-old Fu Lee lives with his grandparents in a small village in China. He lives with his grandparents because his parents are dead. It is a difficult life but made easier by the love Lee shares with his grandparents. But now Lee must leave all that he knows. Before his parents died, they spent all of their money buying a 'paper son slot' for Lee to go to America. Being a 'paper son' means pretending to be the son of a family already...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Provides the details about building the five-mile Mackinac Bridge to connect upper and lower Michigan as seen through the eyes of a young boy. Describes how his family's way of life was altered as the bridge was constructed and how his father's ferry business changed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the 1918 influenza outbreak, nine-year-old Rettie seeks ways to make Thanksgiving special for her siblings and ailing mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Apollo 11 mission draws to a close there is a crisis at the tracking station on Guam: the antenna that will track the spacecraft during reentry, and allow mission control to communicate with the astronauts is stuck--and ten-year-old Marty is the only one small enough to reach in and grease the ball bearings that allow the antenna to move.