The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure

The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater TreasureA stunning picture book about the five largest lakes in North America how they formed, the importance of their abundant freshwater, and how they've become a national treasure in the latest book from the author of Caldecott Honor book The Noisy Paint Box. The Great LakesHuron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superiorare five blue jewels set a bit off center in a belt across North Americas middle. Bordered by eight states and part of Canada, the Lakes hold

determined to read its mind and fathom its heart

she begins to realize that family and love

Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos

” — Lynell George

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory

Barry and Helena will have to confront their enemy—before they

Stevenson is not only a great lawyer

downplaying the drug’s addictiveness

"—NPR staff pick

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE •“A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed

”—People

It’s the stuff of great narrative nonfiction