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Summary: Easy-to-read text and illustrations of nature scenes in Michigan celebrate what makes each season of the year special. Includes nature craft activities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE VANFrankenhuyzen, Robbyn Smith van.
Summary: "A nature and animal rescue story that finds a lamb, rejected by its mother, and an orphaned fawn being cared for by a farm family as siblings on Hazel Ridge Farm. The next spring, the animals separate, one back into the wild and other a domestic animal"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Fiction Frankenhuyzen 2009Noble, Trinka Hakes.
Summary: An old warrior and a young boy travel through the frigid cold of the north to teach the fierce North Wind how to live peacefully with his brothers, allowing the formerly uninhabitable land of Michigane to be settled.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC NOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Michigan NobleCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOBShoulders, Debbie.
Summary: Presents an A-to-Z introduction about the sinking of the Titanic, exploring items ranging from the solid oak grand staircase to the on-board post office.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2011
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Summary: Jackson, a great horned owl, chooses to stay with the family that raised him after a boy stole him from his nest when he was just an owlet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598.977 FRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRAWargin, 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
1 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: After being shown the wonders of nature by Granmother Lom, two children venture out in her boat alone, find themselves in danger, and are rescued by a mysterious bird.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J FairyWargiCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WARFrankenhuyzen, Robbyn Smith van.
Summary: Inspired by a school writing assignment, Kelly takes a fresh look at her family's Michigan farm and notes the ways in which her parents have chosen to nurture the land and the wildlife living on it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION Von Frank.Murphy, Frank
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MURPanagopoulos, Janie Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J MI PanagopoulosWargin, 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 WARWhelan, Gloria.
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 WHEFrankenhuyzen, Robbyn Smith van.
Summary: "A young girl finds a wood duckling separated from his family and teaches him to swim, hunt for bugs, and how to fly. She loved him just enough so that he could find his place in nature and return to his family"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SMIPanagopoulos, Janie Lynn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PANShaw, Stephanie
Summary: "Vain Beaver is inordinately proud of his silky tail, to the point where he alienates his fellow woodland creatures with his boasting. When it is flattened in an accident (of his own making), he learns to value its new shape and seeks to make amends with his friends. Based on an Ojibwe legend"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SHAWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: A young maiden is entranced by the Spirit Wood, where playful fairies known as the Pukwudjininees live, and wants to keep visiting there despite being forbidden to do so by her family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WARCopies Available at East Bay
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 Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J MI WarginCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WARWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: On a cold December night, Louis must decide whether to brave the treacherous Detroit River to take a slave family to freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2004
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: JE WHEFrankenhuyzen, Robbyn Smith van.
Summary: Contains a delightful story of rescue and survival when a red fox pup is rescued from a rusty trap, nursed back to health and returned to the wild.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2003
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FrankenhuyzenWargin, 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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1 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: 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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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.24 WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.24 WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J MI WarginCopies 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
Copies Available at Kingsley
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 Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WARWhelan, 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