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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1841 thirteen-year-old Libby and her family begin a new life on the shores of Lake Michigan where her father works as a surveyor for the Ottawa Indians and Libby is reunited with her Indian friend Fawn.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kile, almost thirteen, spends much of the summer yearning to explore a nearby island, striving to be a good brother, fishing with an elderly neighbor, and fuming at his parents over their separation, which is forcing his mother to sell the family's cabin on a Michigan lake.
4) Hidden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Sadie continues her efforts to protect the bear, Patch, and her cubs, helps a homeless family, wonders if she has a crush on Andrew, and reaches a new understanding with Frankie, all while feeling distant from God.
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Aref is excited to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will start a new school, and while Aref misses his grandfather, his Sidi, he knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting for him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
It's 1955 when thirteen-year-old Lyric moves with her father and her older sister, Summer, from a small Virginia town to the big industrial city of Flint, Michigan. Summer has always been a little odd, but shortly after the move, she starts talking to imaginary people and having frightening episod.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture"--WorldCat.
Author
Series
Michigan chillers volume 5
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
aAs Corky and Ashley walk home, late one summer night, all the lights in Gaylord go out, and after they come back on, Corky finds Ashley on the ground with bite marks in her leg matching the teeth of Mr. Hansel's new stone gargoyle.
12) Star
Author
Series
American dog volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"After her elderly owner passes away, Star—a deaf Australian shepherd—is brought to a local shelter. Star feels scared and alone—until she meets twelve-year-old Julian. After getting in trouble at school yet again, Julian volunteers at the shelter and realizes he can communicate with Star in a way that no one else can. Their bond continues to grow, and Julian and Star become inseparable. Then the unthinkable happens: Funding for the shelter...
Author
Series
Adventures of the Northwoods volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Kate, her stepbrother Anders, and their friend Erik go to visit Kate's blind second cousin in Red Jacket, Michigan, in 1907, they decide to try to find a long-lost map that will supposedly lead to a fortune in silver.
Author
Series
Michigan chillers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After moving into a one hundred year old home in Petoskey, twins Alex and Adrian discover that the place is haunted by a poltergeist. Together they try to rid their home of the terrible ghost, but the ghost has other ideas.
Author
Series
Michigan chillers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Matt Sorenson, not realizing the magic kit he received for Christmas is real, accidentlly brings a vicious, bloodthirsty snow monster from one of his drawings to life, and must finda way to stop the twelve-foot-tall beast before it wreaks havoc on Traverse City.
Author
Series
American chillers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Rick Owens arrives at Camp Willow, he's ready for a week of fun. He's met two new friends: Sandy Johnson and Leah Warner, and the three are ready for an exciting week. But when Rick spots strange tracks around his cabin, the campers realize that they aren't the only ones at the small, lakeside summer camp.
Author
Series
The Island Trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In 1818 Mary O'Shea must decide whether to remain on Michilmackinac Island and marry her dear Indian friend White Hawk or to accept the proposal of James, an English nobleman, and to go with him to London.
19) A family trait
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
20) The wanigan
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
810L
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.
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