A Pocketful of Passage
By Loraine M. Campbell
Published 2007
$12.95L (Paper) - 9780814333419

A fictionalized account of the life of a lighthouse keeper’s daughter and her family on the Great Lakes in the 1940s, written for young readers ages 8 and up.

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Albert Kahn
Builder of Detroit
By Roger Matuz
Published 2002
$14.95t (Cloth) - 9780814329566

This biography tells young readers how he overcame numerous disadvantages to make that indelible mark.

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Willie Horton
Detroit’s Own Willie the Wonder
By Grant Eldridge and Karen Elizabeth Bush
Published 2001
$16.00t (Paper) - 9780814330258

Willie Horton: Detroit's Own "Willie the Wonder" takes this warm and generous man from his disadvantaged childhood through the excitement of a baseball career, and ends with an account of his ongoing work among today's youth.

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First Lady of Detroit
The Story of Marie-Thérèse Guyon, Mme Cadillac
By Karen Elizabeth Bush
Published 2001
$16.00t (Paper) - 9780814329849

First Lady of Detroit is the spirited tale of an adventurous girl who grew up to commission and equip her own expedition to le Detroit, joining her husband there in the fall of 1700 —less than a dozen weeks after Fort Pontchartrain was carved out of

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Mail by the Pail
By Colin Bergel
Illustrated by Mark Koenig
Published 2000
$18.95t (Cloth) - 9780814328903

A delightful story that illustrates the mail delivery system for Great Lakes freighters.

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Detroit Kids Catalog
A Family Guide for the 21st Century
By Ellyce Field
Published 2000
$18.95L (Paper) - 9780814328293

In this updated editionof her best-selling Detroit Kids Catalog: The Hometown Tourist (1990), Ellyce Field calls on both her years as a family entertainment collumnist at the Detroit News and her own family's experiences to write the ultimate guide for th

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Copper-Toed Boots
By Marguerite de Angeli
Published 1996
$18.95t (Paper) - 9780814326541

Recreating the mischievous adventures of that boy through a Michigan summer, Copper-Toed Boots escapes to a time of "tradin" with schoolmates, "tradin" at the store, and picnicking during blackberry season.

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