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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.
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.
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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: 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
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, 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: HarperCollinsPublishers 2003
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Whelan 2003Whelan, Gloria.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1818 Mary O'Shea must decide whether to remain on Michilmackinac Island and marry her dear Indian friend White Hawk or to accept the proposal of James, an English nobleman, and to go with him to London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 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: "Yatandou lives in a Mali village with her family and neighbors. And though she is only eight years old and would much rather play with her pet goat, she must sit with the women and pound millet kernels. To grind enough millet for one day's food, the women must pound the kernels with their pounding sticks for three hours. It is hard work, especially when one is eight years old. But as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHEWhelan, 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.
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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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: Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
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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: 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 Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1878, eleven-year-old Annabel and her parents survive a year of adventure which includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group of Michigan lumbermen moving logs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Whelan 2002Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHEWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writing poems describing the journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2008
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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