MICHIGAN BOOK LIST

State History - Mentions evolution - Where was the first mile of highway paved? Who was the 38th President of the United States? What is the nation's most remote National Park?

State Figure - It’s 1901 and Henry Ford wants to build a car that everyone can own. But first he needs the money to produce it.

State Figure - Thomas Edison and Henry Ford started off as insatiably curious tinkerers. That curiosity led them to become inventors--with very different results.

State Nature - Forest animals, awakened by the birds' warning that there is a stranger in the woods, set out to discover if there is danger and find, instead, a wonderful surprise.

Set in the State - When young Charlie Brightelot first spies the mysterious barracks in the woods near his home, he's not sure what to think.

Set in the State - Voyageur is the French word for "traveler," but in the Great Lakes region during the seventeenth century it described those men who made their living trading furs and goods along water routes.

Set in the State - In the port city of Manistee on the coast of Lake Michigan lives a girl named Mary. Mary's father is a sailor who works on a lake freighter called the Big Laker. T

Set in the State - Chapter Book for Ages 7+ - On Libby Mitchell’s tenth birthday, she and her parents climb into a covered wagon and set off on a journey that takes them two months and a thousand miles.

State Figure - The art and writing of Gwen Frostic are well known in her home state of Michigan and around the world.

Set in the State - Set in the late 1950s, this is the moving story of a young boy whose father operates a ferryboat between Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.

Set in the State - In 1850 the Detroit River was a major track along the Underground Railroad -- the last step to freedom.

Local Author - Bear found his friend Mouse, but Mouse was busy gathering seeds and didn't have time to listen to a story.