Godin, Thelma Lynne
Summary: Rhyming text describes nightfall around Lake Superior as the plants and animals, including humans, that call its shores home begin their nighttime routines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GODVan Dusen, Chris
Summary: It's a summer day so beautiful and peaceful that Hattie, paddling in her canoe in the middle of a lake, can't help but sing. In the deep water below, a creature is lurking. He's huge and green, with a long, long neck and he rarely leaves his lair. But on this day, he hears something sweet and inviting. He hears a song. What happens when the creature rises to the surface is nothing short of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VANHiggins, Kristan.
Summary: "Faith Holland left her hometown after being jilted at the altar. Now a little older and wiser, she's ready to return to the Blue Heron Winery, her family's vineyard, to confront the ghosts of her past. ... Like Levi Cooper, the local police chief--and best friend of her former fiancé. There's a lot about Levi that Faith never noticed, and it's not just those deep green eyes. The only catch is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin HQN 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HIGRyan, Annelise
Summary: "A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan. Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she's not tending the store, she's hunting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2022
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Summary: "Butternut Lake is an idyllic place--but for one woman, her return to the lake town she once called home is bittersweet... Sometimes life changes in an instant. Quinn LaPointe grew up on beautiful Butternut Lake, safe, secure, sure of her future. But after a high school tragedy, she left for college and never looked back. Becoming a successful writer in Chicago, she worked to keep out the dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCNHolling, Holling Clancy.
Summary: A young Indian boy carves an Indian figure in a small canoe and sends him off on a long, adventurous journey through the Great Lakes to the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1969
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.7 HOL1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOL
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Summary: "Grand adventure stories often begin where you least expect, Iris knows this because she's read them all. However, as a thirteen-year-old stuck in the tiny country town of Bugden, real adventure seems a distant dream. That doesn't bother Sam, Iris' best friend. For him, catching bugs and swimming in the lake is exciting enough. But when Iris and Sam stumble upon an unusually dry river on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: As a Young Scientist, twelve-year-old Addie studies pollution in the lake where her twin brother recently drowned, while secretly continuing his investigation of the creature he believed lives in the lake's depths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAUMcNear, Mary
Summary: Quinn LaPointe grew up on beautiful Butternut Lake, safe, secure, sure of her future. But after a high school tragedy, she left for college and never looked back. Becoming a successful writer in Chicago, she worked to keep out the dark memories of an accident that upended her life. After ten years, she's finally returned home. Gabriel Shipp, once her very best friend, doesn't want anything to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNEnright, Elizabeth
Summary: Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2000
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their great-uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BEISalisbury, Melinda
Summary: "Everyone in this quiet lakeside community knows that Alva's father killed her mother, all those years ago. There wasn't enough proof to arrest him, though, and with no other family, Alva's been forced to live with her mother's murderer, doing her best tosurvive until she can earn enough money to run away. One of her chores is to monitor water levels in the loch--a task her father takes very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SALWinters, Donna.
Summary: Widowed at age twenty, Lily Atwood Haynes finds her husband's best friend Captain Hoyt Curtiss is ready to step in to offer assistance, but she can only guess at the dark past that chokes his speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bigwater Pub. 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINKeene, Carolyn
Summary: To celebrate her birthday, George is taking Nancy and Bess on a bike tour around Mystic Lake, but when their tour guide disappears and unknown adversaries steal their supplies and slash their tires, Nancy begins looking for clues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KEEMcCully, Emily Arnold.
Summary: Pip and Ski have a hard time enjoying themselves at the lake with Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1990
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MCCBryan, Kinley
Summary: "It's 1913 and Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream--to open a restaurant back home--but knows she'd never convince her husband, the steward, to leave the seafaring life he loves. In Sunny's Lake Huron hometown, her sister, Agnes Inby, mourns her husband, a U.S. Life-Saving Serviceman who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Mug Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRYLewis, Anne Margaret.
Summary: The big water called Gitchi Gumee shares his many moods and faces with a young boy who wants to know how to safely sail his mighty waves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac Island Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEWFalligant, Erin.
Summary: The reader makes a series of choices that determine how the story's main character will cope with her fear of swimming in lakes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRAHenkes, Kevin.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2008
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JTT Fiction Henkes 2008Root, Phyllis.
Summary: Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROOStowell, Louie
Summary: Kit is a wizard. The youngest wizard in the world, in fact. But her magic keeps going wrong, and all kinds of weird stuff has started happening - exploding fireballs, animals talking when they shouldn't be, and a very strange new arrival in a nearby park. So Kit and her two best friends - along with their local librarian - set off to investigate, and to save the world again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Stowell 2020Donnelly, Paddy
Summary: Something mysterious is happening at Lake Loughareema. There are days the lake is beautiful, shimmering, and full. And then there are other days when it's ... empty. Meara sets out to explore the island and uncover the truth for herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yeehoo Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DONWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: While visiting Lake Lucille in the Adirondack Mountains, the Aldens hear stories about a monster in the lake and then encounter evidence that it may be real.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitman 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARO'Reilly, Jane H.
Summary: At the family cabin by the lake where his grandfather died two years ago, eleven-year-old Cooper Cameron spends the summer trying to rid himself of the rituals that allow him to cope with his grief and fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2017