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The Mystery Hideout
Ken Follett, Stephen Marchesi
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, May 1, 1991)Exploring in an old unused film studio, two boys run across clues to a series of unsolved bank robberies.
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Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet
Betsy Bowen
Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Aug. 26, 2002)The companion book to Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book introduces the letters of the alphabet in woodcut illustrations and brief text depicting the changing seasons in the northern woods. Simultaneous.
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Junglerama
Vicki Grove
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, May 1, 1991)Three twelve-year-olds escape from the harsh realities of life in their small Missouri town, where the family farm is rapidly disappearing, to their clubhouse in an abandoned carnival trailer named Junglerama
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Growing An Inch
Stanley Gordon West
Paperback (Lexington Marshall Publishing, LLC, May 1, 2003)1949 A story about a boy who made a solemn vow and became a man keeping it.Saint Paul/Minneapolis - Those unforgettable days after World War II when people turned back to their personal lives with optimism, a time of Fibber McGee and Molly, newsreels, milkmen, boogie-woogie, The Best Years of Our Lives and chrome grilled automobiles.Against this evocative backdrop, Staley West composes this heartrending song, bittersweet lyrics that will lift your spirit, touch your heart and leave you humming… wishing it wouldn’t end. In one fateful moment, Donny Cunningham comes face to face with unthinkable horror, when his live caves in on him. Changed forever. The task of raising his brothers and sister falls to him when his mother dies. A senior at St. Paul Central, he does whatever it takes to keep his family together, while his father leads them ever closer to disaster. Surrounded aby his zany and lionhearted siblings, his fun-loving friends, and hoping to find love and understanding from his high school sweetheart, Donny is caught between the law – which has a claim on his young brother – and the gangsters – who have a claim on his father. This humor and daring and grit, he fights the dragon of regret with an inner courage and strength that belies his physical stature.
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Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink, Trina Schart Hyman
Paperback (Aladdin, Feb. 28, 1990)Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Hank Prank in Love
Jules Older
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, April 1, 1991)Tough fourth-grader Hank Prank finds his life getting more complicated when he develops a crush on Linh Tran, a new girl in his class
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Birdie's Lighthouse
Deborah Hopkinson, Kimberly Bucklen Root
Hardcover (Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books, May 1, 1997)Young Birdie lives with her family on a tiny and isolated lighthouse island, and when her lighthouse-keeper father becomes seriously ill during a violent storm, it is Birdie who must lead the ships safely to port.
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Chasing Bears
Earl Fleck
Paperback (Holy Cow! Press, June 15, 1999)A rite-of-passage adventure set in the lakes country bordering northern Minnesota and Canada for a father and his two teenage sons.
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The Bells of Lake Superior
Dayton O. Hyde, Emma Witmer
Hardcover (Boyds Mills Press, July 1, 1995)A budding young composer, who earns money as a chimney sweep, tunes the town's various church bells to harmonize and writes his first symphony
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Christmas Song Of The North
Marcia Bonicatto
Hardcover (Scholastic Press, Feb. 1, 2001)Follows the pattern of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" to introduce the forest animals of the north woods during the winter months. Includes information about the animals.
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Charlotte Avery on Isle Royale
Rebecca S. Curtis
Paperback (Face to Face Books, Aug. 15, 1995)Set in the 1870s, young Charlotte and her family move north after the Great Chicago Fire to discover the rich heritage and natural wonders of Isle Royale, a remote island in Lake Superior which is now a U.S. National Park. In the Midwestern tradition of the "Little House" books, this heartwarming tale of growing up in a pioneer family on the edge of the wilderness will delight readers of all ages. "An excellent job of capturing the time and place . . . . Charlotte is a thoughtful and engaging character" (School Library Journal). Based on the diaries of early settlers. For ages 8-12 and older.
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