minnesota

Two young girls, Kate and Berneetha, along with other members of a Minneapolis, Minnesota, neighborhood are brought together by a community garden that was started by the two girls, but fear they might loose their dreams when the building owner announces plans to build a parking garage.

"What is supposed to be a fun ice-fishing trip may turn deadly. When a boy arrives at a northern cabin during the blizzard of the century, he faces more than just frostbite"--.

A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.

The reader is invited to count the animals and plants that live on or in Minnesota's bogs, marshes, rivers, lakes, prairies, and woods. Inlcudes facts on the state's ecosystems and the plants and animals that make their homes there.

"The search for a suddenly missing man entangles unlicensed P.I. Rushmore McKenzie with one of the most powerful-and ruthless-local families"--Provided by publisher.

"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Minnesota"--Provided by publisher.

At his old school fourteen-year-old Simon Wahlberg was the best player on his hockey team, but when he tries out for the Edgewater High School's varsity team he discovers that the competition is pretty fierce--and not just on the ice.

Using poetic clues, readers try to spy the changes made in photographs related to the sights of Minnesota, including the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge, the state capitol, the Como Zoo, and the Minnesota State Fair.

In rural Minnesota in 1938, Hannah, a young orthodox Jewish girl, deals with being the new girl in class.