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Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chocolate shop owner Lee McKinney Woodyard investigates the murder of a retiring member of the library board at a board meeting where all in attendance are suspect.
Author
Series
Log cabin books volume 4
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
37 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although it was her idea to bring together her family and that of a neighboring widow woman to reap the harvest, Elvirey feels her heart "squeeze tight" at the thought of the widow and her Pap getting married.
44) The wanigan
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
133 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Revenge is sweet for a killer on the loose-and it all started with the murder of Warner Pier's most hated clown.... Everyone who knew the bozo wanted him dead. Odd, then, that a complete stranger was accused of bursting Moe Davidson's balloons. But it's been a month since the miserable shop owner of Clowning Around was killed, and everybody's moving on, including Lee Woodyard. Her chocolate shop, TenHuis Chocolade, is next door to Moe's shuttered...
Author
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After returning to her hometown to visit for the summer, divorced mother Marly Hanson fights what seems like her destiny to stay there for good, despite the attentions of a young sheriff who lives next door to her mother.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
A tale set in 1970s suburbia follows the experiences of a group of teenage boys whose lives have been irrevocably changed by their desire to save five doomed sisters who have been isolated by their parents.
49) Willow Run
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
149 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, after moving with her parents to Willow Run, Michigan, when her father gets a job in the B-24 bomber-building factory, eleven-year-old Meggie learns about different kinds of bravery from all of the people around her.
Author
Series
Detective Sunderson novels volume 1
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired Detective Sunderson must get past his troubles with alcohol if he and an unlikely 16-year-old sidekick are ever going to expose an elusive cult leader called The Great Leader.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
348 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a French-Canadian story of a fifteen-year-old girl and the journey of self-discovery as she travels through the wilderness in the early 1700's. Her grandmother expects her to behave like a proper French lady. Story conveys conflict between white invaders and native Indians. Interesting historical fiction.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Atria Paperback ed.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm.
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
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
55) Sweetgirl
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Braving a northern Michigan blizzard to search for her missing meth-addicted mother, Percy James stops by the cabin of two drug addicts and flees with their endangered baby, triggering a dangerous race from the elements and a band of desperate criminals.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
305 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
As much as the chocolates at TenHuis tantalize people's tongues, Lee's newest hire makes them wag. Forsythia "Sissy" Smith is the granddaughter of Warner Pier's only remaining resident hippie. But now that's the least of Lee's concerns. The previous winter, Sissy's husband was shot to death, and in spite of her alibi local talk named Sissy the number one suspect. Then the chief gossip is found dead, with Sissy on the scene. Was she lured there? Or...
57) Hidden
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
147 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
Author
Series
Ruddy McCann novels volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ruddy McCann, former college football star, has experienced a seismic drop in popularity; he is now a full-time repo man in Kalkaska, Michigan and part-time bouncer at his sister's bar. His best friend is his low-energy Basset hound Jake, with whom he shares a simple life of stealing cars. Simple, that is, until Ruddy starts hearing a voice in his head. The voice introduces himself as Alan Lottner, a dead real estate agent. Ruddy isn't sure if Alan...
59) The inheritance
Author
Series
White Pine chronicles volume 2
Publisher
T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
60) The hanging tree
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
314, [9] p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of an apparent suicide in Starvation Lake, local newspaper editor Gus teams up with girlfriend and sheriff's deputy Darlene in an investigation that reveals evidence of foul play.
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