Erdrich, Louise.
Summary: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Erdrich 2012Barker, Charles Ferguson.
Summary: "A fascinating, entertaining, and cautionary story about what the Great Lakes would look like without water"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARBryan, 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 BRYO'Brian, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRSummary: Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await just around the riverbend. She is joined by her playful pals, raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POCSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERDBehrend, Carl.
Summary: Based on a true story about the Great Lakes and the famous Christmas Tree Ship circa 1911 Chicago, Illinois. Includes 70 Historic photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Old Country Books & Records] 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEHFenzel, J. Ryan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ironcroft Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FENJohnston, Donald.
Summary: Here is a tale of life on the Great Lakes, in particular along the western shore of Lake Michigan, and engaging weave of fact and fiction during the early rough and rowdy shipping era. Echoes provides readers with a well written, well researched novel, complete with maps, which are so instructive and helpful in clarifying a sense of place, especially the arrangement of the five Great Lakes -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lord & Allerton 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC JOHJohnston, Donald.
Summary: The year is 1915, and Benjamin Corvet, founder of the ship-owning firm Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman, suddenly disappears, sparking events and questions that baffle even those who are close to him.Constance Sherrill, an attractive, sheltered young woman, feels strangely responsible for what may have happened to him--her father's best friend and coworker. Alan Conrad arrives in Chicago searching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHPerkins, Stan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadblade Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MI FIC PERO'Brian, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OBRHolling, 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, Call number: JN Caldecott HollingWoolson, Constance Fenimore
Summary: With this volume Library of America presents the biggest and best edition of Woolson’s short fiction ever published. Here are twenty-one stories chosen from her four collections—Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1875), Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880), The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895), and Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896)—as well as two uncollected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOMiller, Marlene.
Summary: A little boy and his mother discuss where the frieghters on the lake sail to and what they do along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ferne Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BASKET MILPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her father's freighter ship, the Mary Elise, Elise Wright has grown up cooking and caring for the crew. It is a life she loves. Unlike her estranged sister, Elise has turned down numerous opportunities for a "respectable life" with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, she's bound to the ship and her deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETOleszewski, Wes
Summary: The author is a Great Lakes research historian and he has taken the time to tell some of the best stories he has heard about "strange happenings" on the Great Lakes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.1 OLEBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: Somebody is vandalizing exhibits at the Capitol City Museum of American History, and it is up to twelve-year-old Raining Sam and his friends to find the culprit before irreparable damage is done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BREDownes, Robert
Summary: "The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blank Slate Press 2017
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 133 FIC DOWOldenburg, E. William
Summary: Six children find themselves transported back several centuries to a time in which the forests around their home were inhabited by Potawatomi Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans 1975
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Summary: This children's fiction story is a tribute to the Native American women and men who have walked endless miles to draw attention to the condition of water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lakeside Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TREDownes, Robert
Summary: "The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blank Slate Press 2017