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Author: Lynne Smyles Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 153205307X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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Christmas is fast approaching and with it the exciting anticipation of magical surprises. But when Katie, Nick, Gary, Helena, and Zach log onto the new Tri-Con Dynamics quantum computers, their surprises are anything but magical. The five children are excited to be the first test group to determine whether the new Tri-Con Dynamics quantum computers are kid friendly. When they boot up the computers, mysterious drawers next to the USB ports slide open, revealing black rings trimmed in silver. An onscreen message instructs the children to wear the ring at all times while interacting with the computers. But when the students begin their research, something truly shocking happens. Catapulted back in time, the group finds themselves trapped in a parallel universe where ghosts from the past become their Michigan history teachers. As the five travelers encounter terrifying challenges, including quicksand and cannonballs, they discover the pen that was supposed to take them back to their own time isn’t responding. Who—or what—is in control of their future? In this novel, five students testing new quantum computers find themselves transported into a parallel universe, where they learn the history of their state and face unexpected dangers.
Author: Lynne Smyles Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 153205307X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 114
Book Description
Christmas is fast approaching and with it the exciting anticipation of magical surprises. But when Katie, Nick, Gary, Helena, and Zach log onto the new Tri-Con Dynamics quantum computers, their surprises are anything but magical. The five children are excited to be the first test group to determine whether the new Tri-Con Dynamics quantum computers are kid friendly. When they boot up the computers, mysterious drawers next to the USB ports slide open, revealing black rings trimmed in silver. An onscreen message instructs the children to wear the ring at all times while interacting with the computers. But when the students begin their research, something truly shocking happens. Catapulted back in time, the group finds themselves trapped in a parallel universe where ghosts from the past become their Michigan history teachers. As the five travelers encounter terrifying challenges, including quicksand and cannonballs, they discover the pen that was supposed to take them back to their own time isn’t responding. Who—or what—is in control of their future? In this novel, five students testing new quantum computers find themselves transported into a parallel universe, where they learn the history of their state and face unexpected dangers.
Author: Lynne Smyles Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781495312526 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Katie couldn't move. She felt the cold, smooth ice that surrounded her. Her eyes darted back and forth looking for a way out. Her hands scraped frantically at the walls of ice. She was trapped. History has never seemed more real than in Lynne Ruth Smyles's adventurous new children's book, Michigan History Nightmares. Katie wakes up for her first day of third grade terrified-mostly due to a frightening dream she had in which she was trapped inside a glacier! Shaking off her jitters, she joins best friends Nick and Gary for school. But when Katie catches a glimpse of a model glacier in the classroom, she has a feeling something terrible is about to happen. Soon after the teacher rewards their excellent group work with a special state pen, the friends shockingly find themselves sucked through their computer screens and trapped inside a giant glacier-just like Katie's dream! As the group tries to find a way home, they embark on a journey through Michigan's varied history, learning firsthand how the state's lower peninsula was actually formed. This fun and educational children's story will delight both parents and kids as they learn that history is living all around us!
Author: Lynne Smyles Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530367009 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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What happens when you research the Michigan fur trade on Halloween? Katie, Nick, Gary, Helena, and the mysterious new kid, Zach, are about to find out. Author Lynne Smyles, two-time Lakeview Elementary School teacher of the year, breathes life into history in her Michigan History Nightmares series. She does it again with The Michigan Fur Trade...A Hare Raising Adventure. Halloween dawns with the promise of an exciting day. Looking forward to the afternoon's Halloween festivities, Katie's group is anxious to get through their morning research assignment on the Michigan fur trade and start the celebration. Little do they know that their computers have more tricks than treats in store for them. This time the young historians find themselves transported back in time to the seventeenth century where they are captured by pirates, attacked by a bear, and shot through the rapids with voyageurs while learning first-hand about the fur trade in Michigan. Even more disturbing is the fact that they are no longer in possession of the Michigan pen. Meanwhile, Katie and her friends can't help but wonder: Will they ever make it home without the Michigan pen? Help your children learn history with Smyles's Michigan History Nightmare series, targeted to children in third through fifth grades and supporting the Michigan history curriculum.
Author: Lynne Smyles Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781502945518 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Katie wakes up from another nightmare. This time she was buried alive! She goes to school with jittery nerves because the last time she had a bad dream, things quickly got way too real for comfort. Katie's Michigan history class starts out normally enough, despite the appearance of a mysterious new student, Zach. Before Katie can figure out if Zach is hiding fur and fangs, she and her friends, including Zach, are jerked back in time once again. They're deposited beside the Hopewell Burial Mound, one of the sacred sites of Michigan's famous ancient mound builders. An accident brings Katie face-to-face, or dirt-to-face, with her burial nightmare. The magical pen that has the power to lead them home starts malfunctioning, sending them on a whirlwind tour of Michigan's Native American tribes: Ottawas, Ojibwas, and Hurons. Katie is becoming more suspicious of the mysterious Zach, who just might be able to transform into a wolf. The kids are tired, hungry, and cold. If the pen can't be fixed, how will they ever find their way home? When you're trapped in a Michigan history nightmare, school never looked so good! It is recommended that the Michigan History Nightmares Series be read in sequential order. Dream sequences are written in italics.
Author: Sally Barber Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 149304009X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 209
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From tales of pirate treasure to Jimmy Hoffa’s mysterious disappearance, Michigan Myths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state’s most fascinating and compelling stories. Most people have heard about the Bermuda Triangle, where ships and people disappear without a trace—but few have heard about the equally deadly Great Lakes Triangle, where one-third of all unsolved sea and air disasters in America take place. Night after night, curious onlookers congregate on a remote hill near the Michigan/Wisconsin border to watch for mysterious lights that rise out of the ground, hover, and then disappear. Are the orbs merely optical phenomena created by headlights of passing cars? Or are they spirits returning to haunt where their earthly bodies met their demise? In the mid-1960s, the number of reports to the US Air Force of UFO sightings spiked across the country. Were people seeing unfamiliar technological innovations in aircraft? Had the rising popularity of the new-fangled television’s sci-fi programs sparked Americans’ imaginations? Or were extraterrestrial beings actually responding to signals from newly constructed deep-space radio transmitters?
Author: Tom Henderson Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429997087 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 399
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In the bitter cold of 1985, two buddies embark on a hunting trip from suburban Detroit to rural Michigan, unaware they would soon become the hunted. Darker than Night tells the chilling true story of the mystery that haunted a community and baffled the police for two decades. The eerie silence surrounding their sudden disappearance is broken after nearly two decades when a relentless investigator inspires a terrified witness to break her silence. The witness narrates a haunting scene that had unfolded years back, pointing fingers at the prime suspects–the Duvall brothers. With no bodies unearthed, the justice system is riveted by the startling revelations during an electrifying trial in 2003. The brothers, Raymond and Donald Duvall, had bragged about the murders, evocatively explaining how they dismembered their victims and fed them to pigs. Despite the shocking confession, the case holds its ground purely on a single witness's account, taking the courtroom through a labyrinth of dark secrets and sinister acts. This gripping thriller presents a vivid tale of crime that reveals the devastating power of evil.
Author: Robert M. Fogelson Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300126999 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents’ dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and lowincome groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change. These fears, and the restrictive covenants that embodied them, are the subject of Robert M. Fogelson’s fascinating new book. As Fogelson reveals, suburban subdividers attempted to cope with the deep-seated fears of unwanted change, especially the encroachment of “undesirable” people and activities, by imposing a wide range of restrictions on the lots. These restrictions ranged from mandating minimum costs and architectural styles for the houses to forbidding the owners to sell or lease their property to any member of a host of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. These restrictions, many of which are still commonly employed, tell us as much about the complexities of American society today as about its complexities a century ago.
Author: Mikel B. Classen Publisher: Loving Healing Press ISBN: 1615996354 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 189
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What Were Pioneer Days Really Like in the U.P.? The combination of mining, maritime and lumbering history created a culture in the U.P. that is unique to the Midwest. Discover true stories of the rough and dangerous times of the Upper Peninsula frontier that are as enjoyable as they are educational. You'll find no conventional romantic or whitewashed history here. Instead, you will be astonished by the true hardships and facets of trying to settle a frontier sandwiched among the three Great Lakes. These pages are populated by Native Americans and the European immigrants, looking for their personal promised land-whether to raise families, avoid the law, start a new life or just get rich... no matter what it took. Mineral hunters, outlaws, men of honor creating civilization out of wilderness and the women of strength that accompanied them, the Upper Peninsula called to all. Among the eye-opening stories, you'll find True Tales includes: • Dan Seavey, the infamous pirate based out of Escanaba • Angelique Mott, who was marooned with her husband on Isle Royale for 9 months with just a handful of provisions and no weapons or tools • Vigilantes who broke up the notorious sex trafficking rings - protected by stockades, gunmen, and feral dogs - in Seney, Sac Bay, Ewen, Trout Creek, Ontonagon and Bruce Crossing • Klaus L. Hamringa, the lightkeeper hero who received a commendation of valor for saving the crews of the Monarch and Kiowa shipwrecks • The strange story of stagecoach robber Reimund (Black Bart) Holzhey • The whimsical tale of how Christmas, Michigan got its moniker • The backstories of famous pioneers, such as Peter White, George Shiras III, Governor Chase Osborn and many others This book is a gold mine of vacation possibilities, providing dozens of fascinating little-known facts about many of the innumerable attractions found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With the aid of a near countless parade of carefully selected historical images, Mikel paints a picture the reader will not ever forget. -- Michael Carrier, author of Murder on Sugar Island (Jack Handler mysteries) Learn more at www.MikelBClassen.com From Modern History Press
Author: Lynne Smyles Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 1685371116 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 152
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The Haunting of Whispering Cove Lighthouse By: Lynne Smyles Riley’s family had no way of knowing that an innocuous search into her family’s ancestry would lead them to a lighthouse shrouded in mystery, danger, and suspense. Upon discovering that their ancestor, Captain Boyle, had been the keeper of Whispering Cove Lighthouse in the 1800s, the Boyle family and Riley’s cousin Charlie decide to vacation there. Shortly after arriving, they learn the legend of the lighthouse, the two ghosts who haunt it, and the treasure hidden there. As Riley and Charlie search for the treasure, watchful strangers seem to lurk around every corner in this mysterious small town. Soon, unexplained occurrences cause the cousins to wonder if there really are ghosts. Or, is something more nefarious behind these manifestations? And, if they do find the loot, with so many eyes watching, who can the family trust?
Author: Nancy Langston Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295989688 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 405
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Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare. Fires, insect epidemics, and disease now threaten millions of acres of once-bountiful forests. Yet no one can agree what went wrong. Was it too much management—or not enough—that forced the forests of the inland West to the verge of collapse? Is the solution more logging, or no logging at all? In this gripping work of scientific and historical detection, Nancy Langston unravels the disturbing history of what went wrong with the western forests, despite the best intentions of those involved. Focusing on the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington, she explores how the complex landscapes that so impressed settlers in the nineteenth century became an ecological disaster in the late twentieth. Federal foresters, intent on using their scientific training to stop exploitation and waste, suppressed light fires in the ponderosa pinelands. Hoping to save the forests, they could not foresee that their policies would instead destroy what they loved. When light fires were kept out, a series of ecological changes began. Firs grew thickly in forests once dominated by ponderosa pines, and when droughts hit, those firs succumbed to insects, diseases, and eventually catastrophic fires. Nancy Langston combines remarkable skills as both scientist and writer of history to tell this story. Her ability to understand and bring to life the complex biological processes of the forest is matched by her grasp of the human forces at work—from Indians, white settlers, missionaries, fur trappers, cattle ranchers, sheep herders, and railroad builders to timber industry and federal forestry managers. The book will be of interest to a wide audience of environmentalists, historians, ecologists, foresters, ranchers, and loggers—and all people who want to understand the changing lands of the West.
Author: Lynne Smyles
Author: Lynne Smyles
Author: Lynne Smyles
Author: Lynne Smyles
Author: Lynne Smyles
Author: Sally Barber
Author: Tom Henderson
Author: Robert M. Fogelson
Author: Mikel B. Classen
Author: Lynne Smyles
Author: Nancy Langston