The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
In 1837 ten-year-old Libby and her parents journey by covered wagon to the Michigan frontier, where they make themselves a new home near friendly Indians and other pioneers.
Luke, a seventeen-year-old from a small Michigan town, embarks on a personal struggle with spirituality, love, and responsibility after foretelling a friend's death.
"Fifteen-year-old Chelsea and her family are spending the summer at a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan where Chelsea meets and falls for Josh--the cute and shy employee at the new bookstore in town"--Provided by publisher.
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.
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.
Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, industry, culture, historic sites, and famous people of this state composed of two peninsulas more or less surrounded by Great Lakes water.
"[Collects the novels Fifth summer and Sixteenth summer together in one volume. In the first,] fifteen-year-old Chelsea and her family are spending the summer at a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan where Chelsea meets and falls for Josh--the cute and shy employee at the new bookstore in town . . . [In Sixteenth summer,] sixteen-year-old Anna falls for Will, a New Yorker visiting her resort island for the summer, but she isn't sure if one summer of love will be worth her heart breaking when he leaves at the end of August"--OCLC.
Seventeen-year-old Josephine Best, having been to college and opened her own hairdressing shop, is not looking for love, but her head is turned by the attentions of two soldiers who have returned home to Michigan from the Civil War.
