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Made in Michigan Writers SeriesWhelan, 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.
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WheCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MI Whelan 2006Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHECopies Available at Woodmere
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.
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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.
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WhelaWhelan, Gloria
Summary: When Grandma dies, her five children and their children descend on her farmhouse to divide the possessions in an orderly manner and in hopes of making everyone happy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Bks for Young Readers 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC WheWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: When Grandma dies, her five children and their children descend on her farmhouse to divide the possessions in an orderly manner and in hopes of making everyone happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: On a cold December night, Louis must decide whether to brave the treacherous Detroit River to take a slave family to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JE WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Contents: Keeping order -- Incomer -- Costumes -- Living together -- Travelogue -- It's going to be all right -- The ark -- Migrating -- When the children grow up -- Hautala country -- Icy miracles -- Keeping your place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Childrens Books 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: When she sneaks away to visit her friend, a young girl living on the Michigan frontier is caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands in the 1840s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: After her mother's death, 13-year-old Clair refuses to speak and her minister father moves them from their comfortable existence to the wilds of northern Michigan to start a small mission and to begin a new life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WhelaWhelan, Gloria
Summary: It is perilous to be a Catholic in the Ireland of 1735, and almost more than can be borne for fifteen-year-old Padraic Fitzbrian. Nearly 100 years before, Lord Protector Cromwell of England had put down the Irish rebellion—confiscating lands, killing priests, outlawing the Mass and prohibiting education of any kind for Irish Catholics. Padraic and his two friends, Liam and Rose, are in their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethleham Books 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Whelan 2001Whelan, Gloria.
Summary: In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1839, newly orphaned eleven-year-old Mary goes to live with her missionary aunt and uncle who run a school for Indian children in northern Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1816, sixteen-year-old Mary O'Shea accepts her married sister's invitation to visit her in London and experiences much of the world beyond her beloved family farm on Mackinac Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: FIC WHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991