Fifteen-year-old Mick recalls a series of betrayals and other life-changing events at home, school, and during the break-up with his girlfriend, and considers how those troubles led to his arrest for murder.
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
An illustrated introduction to Michigan that covers the geography, climate, weather, plants, animals, history, people, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, and entertainment of the state.
Takes the reader on a tour of the state with the longest freshwater shoreline in the world, emphasizing its geography, history, government, and culture.
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.
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.
