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Summary: A collection of stories, poems, facts, riddles, and more all about Michigan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WAR1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 810.8 WAR
Wargin, Kathy-Jo
Summary: Two white-footed mice, one who lives in Michigan and one in Minnesota, are both seeking home and family when they meet at a cheese-eating contest in Wisconsin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mitten Press 2007
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Summary: Explores instruments, composers, terms, and musical styles from A to Z in easy rhymes and explanatory text.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 780 WARWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: A young girl and her mother both make secret wishes on butterfly wings, and learn years later that the legend of the butterfly is real and that both of their wishes have come true.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION WarginWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: An illustrated counting book that celebrates the many attractions of the State of Michigan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: "Following the alphabet this book uses poetry and expository text to explore the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, which is located along the northwest coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Topics include the park's natural features such as dune formations, beaches, forests, and cultural attractions"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WARWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: As payment for retrieving the princess's ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mitten Press 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: "This is the story of an enduring friendship between an Ojibwe girl and a Dakotah boy, and how their kindness towards one another brings healing to a tribe, and gives the beautiful land of Minnesota its name"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native WarginWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: One winter, when the people of her village become terribly ill, Running Flower braves the snow and freezing cold to race to the village on the other side of the forest for medicine. Based on an Ojibwe legend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.242 WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native WarginCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: Challenges children to notice the difference from one picture to the next. Each photograph represents Michigan in a unique way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793 WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WarCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE MI WarginWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: Describes the voyage and sinking of the giant transport ship, the Edmund Fitzgerald, which was caught in a raging storm while crossing Lake Superior in November, 1975.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2003
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.74 WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 917.74 WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 917.74 WARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.74 WarCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.749 WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J MI WarginWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: Retells the story of the great turtle Makinauk that enlists the aid of other animals to help create the special place known as Mackinac Island.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J MI WarginWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: Colorfully illustrated story of an eagle that inspired a Wisconsin infantry unit in the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: In this retelling of an Ojibwe Indian tale, a mother bear loses sight of her two cubs as they all attempt to escape a forest fire by swimming across Lake Michigan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 1998
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3 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.24 WARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.24 WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE 398.24 WARWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: Recounts the life of Petosegay, an Ottawa Indian chief, who gave his name to the small town in northern Michigan--Petoskey--where a unique stone can be found along its shores.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WarCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE MI WarginCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WARWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: "Alfred Nobel was the man who founded what became known as The Nobel Prizes. Nobel also invented dynamite, becoming very wealthy from his invention. Saddened by its use for harmful destruction, Nobel left his fortune to create yearly prizes for those who have rendered the greatest services to mankind"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB Nobel WARWargin, Kathy-jo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 WARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 WAR2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 WAR
Wargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: When George Gipp is awarded a baseball scholarship to the University of Notre Dame, his future seems set. Setting records and winning fan's hearts, George seems unstoppable but cruel fate intervenes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GIPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB GIPPER WARWargin, Ed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977 WAR1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977 WAR