Janie Lynn Panagopoulos

• Jan-1993
• / General Fiction
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"This is so unfair, " laments Gus McCarty, a twelve-year-old who first struggles at school with an obnoxious bully named Al, and then is reeled back in time to a lumberjack camp with an equally troublesome acquaintance named Alex. Added to Gus' dilem...

• Jan-1993
• / General Fiction
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Panagopoulos' award winning novel about Nicholas and Christopher, brothers who find themselves trapped in an 18th-century world of fur traders and Indians, has become a classic. A Historical- Fiction adventure tale about Great Lakes history, featuri...

• May-1994
• / General Fiction
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Chris scoffs at his younger brother's enthusiasm for collecting rocks-particularly one Nick thinks is shaped like a turtle-and generally thinks that the eight-year-old is something of a wimp. But Chris's attitude is dramatically changed as the brothe...

• Jan-1995
• / General Fiction
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Eleven-year old Jennifer decides to humor her father by listening to entries in an old journal stored in the family trunk. Much to her surprise she becomes intrigued by the journal's writer, her ancestor, Jenny Case, a spunky New York farm girl who...

• Jan-1996
• / General Fiction
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As Robert Pacquette interviews an old iron miner for his Social Study's history report, he is swept back into the life of Robert Friggens, a boy from Albany, New York, who travels to Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the mid 1800s, during this regions gr...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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Allie and Shoo Spywell is just regular kids-well, sort of. It's just that their dad is an archaeologist, and their mother is a mystery writer. The Spywell kids always seem to get a few more history lessons than they would like. When Allie and Shoo ar...

• Mar-2006
• / Historical
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This heartfelt story begins on the streets of New York City in 1854 where thousands of homeless children, immigrants and natives are fighting to survive just one more day. Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, made a plan to re...

• Aug-2011
• / General Fiction
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What's it like to have a father who is an archaeologist and a mother who is a mystery writer? For Allie and Shoo Spywell it means fun and mysterious family vacations throughout the Great Lakes that entangle them in ghostly adventures. Like this trip...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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When her grandchildren arrive at her home, Grandmother Kinzie tells them the true story of Nellie Lytle, who was captured by the Seneca Indians in 1779. Only a girl at the time, Nellie shows such strength and determination that her captors soon name...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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Makow felt his belly twist inside him, knowing the game he watched would soon turn to carefully planned violence. He could hear his mother's voice, "It is better to have peace, Makow, better to have peace."But the anger surged inside him - the Engli...