Will Weaver
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having fled his family's farm at eighteen with a promise never to return, Guy Pehrsson is drawn back into his past when he receives his grandfather's ominous letter, "Trouble here. Come home when you can." He returns to discover a place both wholly familiar and barely recognizable and is cast into the center of an interracial land dispute with the exigencies of war.
Widely acclaimed when first published in the eighties, the timeless novel Red...
Widely acclaimed when first published in the eighties, the timeless novel Red...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills.
7) Striking out
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.
8) Full service
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1965, sixteen-year-old Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.