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Language
English
Description
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a...
Author
Language
English
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
4) Michigan
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From Mackinac Island to the popular Tulip Time Festival in Holland, there's lots to see and do in Michigan! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Michigan special"--Publisher's website.
5) Michigan
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the state of Michigan, including its history, government, economy, and travel opportunities.
6) Mrs. Mack
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
7) Michigan
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the geography, history, people, industries, and environmental concerns of the state of Michigan.
8) Michigan
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, sports, art, and people of the state of Michigan.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A novel on a wedding in Wisconsin. The booze flows, the guests polka and everyone has an opinion on the couple's future, each the reflection of a different marital experience. A study in love and marriage by the author of River Angel.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended."--from publisher's description.
12) Farmer
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged man who has taught for twenty-three years, more from habit than total commitment to his profession, is forced to come to terms with his identity, farm life, thirty-year marriage, and affair with an eighteen-year-old student in a Michigan community of the 1950's.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. Peter Rock's stunning auto-biographical novel begins in the 90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin, where the narrator, a man recently graduated from college, and a young widow, Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, making their way across miles of open water, navigating the currents and...
14) Michigan
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press & Editorial Buenas Letras
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
15) Gran Torino
Language
English
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, is pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's prize possession,...
17) Mr. Perfect
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When four female colleagues at a Michigan corporation compile a list of qualities that would make up the perfect man, they unwittingly unleash a murderer who targets them for the perfect murder -- one at a time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009, ©2006
Language
English
Description
Desperately avoiding the clutches of professional hit men who have already put a bullet in his leg, Cork finds sanctuary outside the small Michigan town of Bodine. But while he's hiding out in an old resort owned by his cousin Jewell DuBois, a bitter widow with a fourteen-year-old son named Ren, the body of a young girl surfaces along the banks of the Copper River -- and then another teenager vanishes. Instead of thwarting his assassins, Cork focuses...
Author
Publisher
Wade Multimedia, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The astonishing but true story of White Boy Rick Wershe is an example of why the War on Drugs has been a trillion-dollar policy failure for nearly half a century. Rick Wershe, Jr. was a street-savvy Detroit white kid in a dysfunctional family. His mother fled an abusive marriage, leaving her children behind. Rick raised himself. He didn't do drugs, but he knew important people in the narcotics underworld. The FBI had him infiltrate a powerful black...
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