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Author
Series
Chasing Helicity volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Helicity, not a victim of a horrific tornado but a survivor, connects with a local meteorologist and other stormchasers who support her plan to become one of them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Cupcake cousins volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During a family vacation at Lake Michigan, nine-year-old cousins Willow and Delia, desperate to avoid being flower girls in their aunt's wedding, try to demonstrate that they would do better as chefs for the reception.
Author
Series
Cupcake cousins volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Cousins Willow and Delia return to the kitchen as their family welcomes a new baby in the second book in the illustrated Cupcake Cousins series"--
Author
Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"A winter trip in the remote Michigan wilderness seemed like the perfect way for Jayden to get to know his new foster family. Though he doesn't have much in common with siblings Maggie and Connor, he's hoping they'll get to like each other over snow mobile races and steaming mugs of cocoa. But when the snow really starts to come down, the family van crashes and the three kids must go out into the bleak, white storm to search for help"--Amazon.com....
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Series
The Quirks volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
With its cookie cutter houses, welcoming committees, and all-town competitions, Normal, Michigan, seems like a perfect fit for nine-year-old new resident Molly, the only non-magical person in her family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
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Womens History Month - JF
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
If You Like Anne of Green Gables, Read These!
Womens History Month - JF
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Description
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression.
Author
Series
The Quirks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Quirks, a magical family living in Normal, Michigan, look forward to Halloween and the arrival of Uncle Cork from Scotland.
15) Vero rising
Author
Series
The ether volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"While living a seemingly ordinary life, a 12-year-old boy discovers his true identity of a guardian angel and must begin his intense training under the guidance of the archangels while still living his suburban life"--
16) Birdie
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Still grieving for her father, twelve-year-old Birdie struggles to adjust to many changes, including when her grandmother, her mother, and her best friends all begin dating.
17) Pillars of fire
Author
Series
The ether volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"After discovering his true identity, a new enemy is after Vero Leland--a demoness known as the Lilith, and she will stop at nothing to destroy him, including attacking those closest to him"--
18) Poppy
Author
Series
American dog volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
With the help of a very special pit bull puppy, twelve-year-old Hannah adjusts to moving from Michigan to California and makes friends, despite the birthmark that makes her self-conscious.
19) Betty before X
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
20) A million Junes
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
In their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, the O'Donnells and the Angerts have mythic legacies. But for all the tall tales they weave, both founding families are tight-lipped about what caused the century-old rift between them, except to say it began with a cherry tree. Eighteen-year-old Jack “June” O'Donnell doesn't need a better reason than that. She's an O'Donnell to her core, just like her late father was, and O'Donnells stay away from Angerts....
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