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Foster home care Fiction Foster home care Juvenile fiction Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 Fiction Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 Juvenile fiction Michigan Fiction Michigan History 20th century Juvenile fiction Mystery and detective stories National parks and reserves Fiction National parks and reserves Juvenile fiction United States History War of 1812 Juvenile fictionFilter By Series
Let's get active! Mysteries in our national parks 10 Mysteries in our national parks 11 Mysteries in our national parks 12 Mysteries in our national parks 9 Mysteries in our national parks 13 Mysteries in our national parks 5 Mysteries in our national parks 6 Mysteries in our national parks 7 Paula Wiseman bookSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: The Landon family makes a trip to Death Valley National Park accompanied by a mysterious new foster child, fourteen-year-old Leesa Sherman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SKUSummary: After inheriting her spying business from her late father, private eye Honey West outwits criminals and solves crimes using her unique arsenal of martial arts and scientific gadgets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by VCI Entertainment 1965
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HONSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: While at St. John National Park in the Virgin Islands for a seminar on coral reefs, the Landons help a wealthy thirteen-year-old to find his birth mother, who he believes is in danger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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Summary: The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and become involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SkurzSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: While their mother investigates a series of bear attacks in and near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Jack and Ashley learn about country music and Cherokee people from two new friends, one of whom is keeping a secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SKUSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2003
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SKUSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: While lost in a tunnel at Carlsbad Cavern, thirteen-year-old Jack, eleven-year-old Ashley, and their eight-year-old foster brother, Sam, think bats and darkness are their worst problems, until they stumble across thieves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SKUSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SKUSummary: Vivo, a one-of-a-kind kinkajou, spends his days playing music with his beloved owner Andrš. But when tragedy strikes, it₂s up to Vivo to deliver a message that Andrš never could: a love letter to his old partner, the famous Marta Sandoval, in the form of a song. Yet in order to get to Marta, who lives a world apart, Vivo will need the help of Gabi, an energetic tween who bounces to the beat of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV VIVGoldreich, Gloria.
Summary: Beautiful Ida Chagall, the only daughter of Marc Chagall, is blossoming in the Paris art world beyond her father's controlling gaze. But her newfound independence is short-lived. In Nazi-occupied Paris, Chagall's status as a Jewish artist has made them all targets, yet his devotion to his art blinds him to their danger. When Ida falls in love and Chagall angrily paints an empty wedding chair...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOLSantos, Gloria
Summary: Dribble, shoot, score. Playing basketball is a great way to have fun with friends. It's also the perfect way to stay active. Readers hit the court with an engaging narrator in this exciting narrative about a basketball game. A city park offers a familiar setting, and each scene is beautifully illustrated in vibrant color. Emergent readers will find the age-appropriate text easy to read....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN SANWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: A fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's sixteenth summer, during which love for his family, need for independence, and responsibility for decisions vie with each other, moving him from boyhood to manhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 1999
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: A fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's 16th summer, during which love for his family, need for independence, and responsibility for decisions vie with each other, moving him from boyhood to manhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1981
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Whelan 1981Whelan, Gloria.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Belle resents the presence of her sophisticated cousin on a family vacation in the summer of 1942, but their strained relationship is overshadowed by the war in Europe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WhelaSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: Jack, Ashley, and their unreliable new foster sister set out to solve the mystery of why whales are beaching themselves at Acadia National Park.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SKUSkurzynski, Gloria.
Summary: While she studies condors in the Grand Canyon, a scientist's life is threatened, and the strange, hostile, teenage computer whiz in her family's foster care might be involved.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SKUHouston, Gloria.
Summary: Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HOUWhelan, Gloria
Summary: Inspired by a true story, when Queen Victoria is unable to go swimming without her subjects glimpsing her in a swimming suit, her husband, Prince Albert, comes up with an innovative solution so his wife can indulge in the healthy exercise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WHEWhelan, Gloria
Summary: "In Depression-era northern Michigan, a young boy meets a teenager serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the work relief program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to employ millions of young men during the Great Depression"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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Summary: Nellie and her mother pick berries all summer in order to make enough money so that Nellie can get a coat to wear to school in the winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005