num_pages: 242
description: A collection of stories, poems, and essays about people and places of the Great Lakes Region by a variety of authors.We are the Early Risers / a poem by JoAnn Early Macken --Fairies washing / a story by April Pulley Sayre --Chicago Waters / an essay by Susan Power --Miracle / a poem by Gwen Hart --Moon Magic / an essay by Sigurd F. Olson --A Clutch of Fowers / a poem by Phyllis I. Harris --The Ice Deer / a story by Ellen Creager --The Gold Medal Flower / an essay by Gene Stratton-Porter --From the Celler / a poem by William Pitt Root --Adrift on Niagara / an essay by Charles E. Misner --Return Portage / a poem by Louis Jenkins --Winter Season / an essay by Bruce Catton --Fireworks / a story by Katharine Crawford Robey --Milwaukee River poem / a poem by Julie Parson-Nesbitt --At Uglyfish Lake / an essay by Ellen Airgood --Evening Flight / a story by Don Moser --Prairie after Rain / a poem by Marcia Lipson --Hay Field Bestiary / an essay by David Kline --Mush Again / a poem by Lisa Wheeler --Saving Lake Erie / an essay by Gretchen Woelfle --The Copper Beech / a poem by Marie Howe --A Mighty Fortress / an essay by Aldo Leopold --The Glowing Brown Snails of Blueberry Lake / a poem by Freya Manfred --Leaves / a story by Sara St. Antoine --Christmas Tree Miracle / an essay by Carol Farley --Journal Entry; Lake Michigan July / a poem by Roger Pfingston --Summer at Silver Creek Farm / story by Shannon Sexton --Weekend / a prose poem by Robert Alexander --Serious Fishing / an essay by John Knott --The Worm Girl / a poem by Laura Lush --Neengay, the Story Giver / an essay by Day Alexander --Apple jelly / a poem by Margaret Atwood --The Box Camera / an essay by Edwin Way Teale --Rain / an essay by Antwone Quenton Fisher --Great Northern Pike / a story by Katharine Crawford Robey --The Raccoon Brigade / a story by Pat Kertzman --An Evening on Isle Royle / a poem by Mary Bartlett Caskey --Four Skinny Trees / an excerpt from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros --A Bear in the Backyard / an essay by Jack Becklund --Hummingbird / a poem by Pamela Uschuk --The Turtle / a story by George Vukelich --Crows / a poem by Jill Barrie --Shorthand on the snow / an essay by Louis W. Campbell with Claire Gavin --First Night of Summer in Chicago / a poem by Abe Louise Young --A Flash of Gold / a story by Marjorie Carlson Davis --Beaver Rendezvous / an essay by Ann Cooper --Snowy Morning with Squirrels / a poem by Raymond Souster --Gems in the Jack Pine / An essay by Laurie Allmann
language: English
title: The Great Lakes
titlecomplete: The Great Lakes (Stories from Where We Live)
genres: Nonfiction, Geography
ratings_count: 7
series: Stories from Where We Live
publisher: Milkweed Editions