Margi Preus

• Jan-1901
• / General Fiction
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Nanabozhopart man, part spiritis an Ojibwe trickster character, capable of great mischief. Nanabozho teaches us that beauty can sometimes come from mischief. In this story, Nanabozho "paints" the animal kingdom, giving color to each creature he can f...

• Jun-2004
• / General Fiction
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The lady slipper grows in the northern woods to mark the courage and strength of a small girl who lived there long ago - a girl who saved her people from a terrible disease by listening carefully to the whispering snow, the rumbling ice, and the danc...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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Yuko's grandmother remembers that when she was a little girl many years ago in Japan, her town's beautiful temple bell was taken away to be used as scrap metal for the war effort. She thought she'd never see it again. After the war the bell was br...

• Aug-2010
• / Historical
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In 1841, a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a small, unknown island, where they are rescued by a passing American ship. Japan's borders remain closed to all Western nations, so the crew sets off to America, learning Englis...

• Sep-2012
• / Historical
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Nazi Germany has invaded Norway, and fourteen-year-old Espen and his friends are swept up in the resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers, then graduates to the role of courier, and finally becomes a spy, dodging the...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America. After being se...

• Mar-2015
• / Mystery
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Midwest Book Award Winner  -- Young Adult Fiction

A disturbing call from her great aunts Astrid and Jeannette sends seventeen-year-old Francie far from her new home in New York into a tangle of mysteries. Ditching an audition in a Manhatta...

• Sep-2015
• / Action Adventure
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When American ships steam into Edo Bay for the first time, it is into the forbidden waters of mid-19th-century Japan. Outsiders are not allowed to enter the country, and Japan's samurai prepare for war. Thirteen-year-old Yoshi longs to join the fight...

• Sep-2016
• / Historical
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Attentive young Sophie lives with her family at a lighthouse on the shore of Lake Superior. At this essential outpost, everyone has a job to do, whether baking bread, fishing for dinner, or caring for the light. And in this isolated place, in a time ...

• Sep-2017
• / Mystery
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Francie returns to Enchantment Lake looking for answers, only to get dragged into a murder mystery she might not survive

Francie’s brother Theo has secrets -- secrets Francie thinks she wants to know. But what if one of those ...

• Feb-2020
• / Historical
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Newbery Honor recipient Margi Preus tells the incredible true story of a group of French teenagers who helped save refugees in WWII Based on the true story of the French villagers in WWII who saved thousands of Jews, this novel tells how a group o...

• Mar-2020
• / General Fiction
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A red squirrel, Jean Pierre Petit Le Rouge, stows away on a canoe to fulfill his dream of joining a group of voyageurs--men who paddle canoes filled with goods to a trading post thousands of miles away. It is 1792 and unbeknownst to a group of voy...

• Oct-2020
• / Mystery
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In the final Enchantment Lake mystery, Francie’s search for the truth about her mother—and herself—plunges her into danger during a North Woods winter When she wakes in her aunts’ cold cabin on the shore of Enchantment Lake, Fra...

• May-2022
• / General Fiction
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A little sailboat has a big burst of determination when a fleet of tall ships needs assistance.Lily the sailboat is small but sturdy, in a harbor full of enormous cargo ships, speedy fishing vessels, and bossy tugboats that all have somewhere to go. ...

• Sep-2022
• / Fantasy
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From New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honorâ€"winning author Margi Preus, a gripping middle-grade fantasy about a girl who must save the children of her world from being Windswept.   In Tag’s world, children are disappearing. “Younger...