Author: Mike Link
Publisher: Adventure Publications
ISBN: 1591936055
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Take an active role in your grandchildren's lives. Show them the best of Minnesota. Teach the valuable lessons you've learned throughout your years. Grandparents Minnesota Style, written by active grandparents Mike Link and Kate Crowley, spotlights more than 70 Minnesota attractions and activities for grandparents and grandchildren, ages 2 and up. It offers tips on making each stop a bonding experience and is filled with insights and advice to help you along the way. If you're a grandparent who wants to play an instrumental part in your grandchildren's healthy development, this book is for you!
Grandparents Minnesota Style
Author: Mike Link
Publisher: Adventure Publications
ISBN: 1591936055
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Take an active role in your grandchildren's lives. Show them the best of Minnesota. Teach the valuable lessons you've learned throughout your years. Grandparents Minnesota Style, written by active grandparents Mike Link and Kate Crowley, spotlights more than 70 Minnesota attractions and activities for grandparents and grandchildren, ages 2 and up. It offers tips on making each stop a bonding experience and is filled with insights and advice to help you along the way. If you're a grandparent who wants to play an instrumental part in your grandchildren's healthy development, this book is for you!
Publisher: Adventure Publications
ISBN: 1591936055
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Take an active role in your grandchildren's lives. Show them the best of Minnesota. Teach the valuable lessons you've learned throughout your years. Grandparents Minnesota Style, written by active grandparents Mike Link and Kate Crowley, spotlights more than 70 Minnesota attractions and activities for grandparents and grandchildren, ages 2 and up. It offers tips on making each stop a bonding experience and is filled with insights and advice to help you along the way. If you're a grandparent who wants to play an instrumental part in your grandchildren's healthy development, this book is for you!
Bring Warm Clothes
Author: Peg Meier
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Life stories of ordinary people of Minnesota, through the form of letters, diaries, & photographs. Every day life from the beginning of the 19th century to the dawn of World War II.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Life stories of ordinary people of Minnesota, through the form of letters, diaries, & photographs. Every day life from the beginning of the 19th century to the dawn of World War II.
The Minnesota Book of Skills
Author: Chris Niskanen
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518845
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Minnesotans are a highly skilled bunch, whether pursuing traditional activities like wild ricing and pickling, or tastefully displaying taxidermy, or selecting the right fishing bait. Skills particularly appropriate to Minnesota-- such as creating seed art or baking a Bundt cake--may be fully on display at the state fair, a prime opportunity to join with neighbors in celebrating our many talents. The Minnesota Book of Skills brings to life the basic know-how that makes us uniquely Minnesotan. Seasonal tips like how to gracefully exit a ski lift mingle with skills your grandparents knew well, such as what to forage for while on a hike. How soon is too soon to bring a child to the Boundary Waters or set her up on hockey skates? The answers are here. Maybe you'll never carve an ice sculpture or build your own coffin--but isn't it comforting to know that one handy book offers just the guidance you'll need?
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518845
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Minnesotans are a highly skilled bunch, whether pursuing traditional activities like wild ricing and pickling, or tastefully displaying taxidermy, or selecting the right fishing bait. Skills particularly appropriate to Minnesota-- such as creating seed art or baking a Bundt cake--may be fully on display at the state fair, a prime opportunity to join with neighbors in celebrating our many talents. The Minnesota Book of Skills brings to life the basic know-how that makes us uniquely Minnesotan. Seasonal tips like how to gracefully exit a ski lift mingle with skills your grandparents knew well, such as what to forage for while on a hike. How soon is too soon to bring a child to the Boundary Waters or set her up on hockey skates? The answers are here. Maybe you'll never carve an ice sculpture or build your own coffin--but isn't it comforting to know that one handy book offers just the guidance you'll need?
Tracker
Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442467126
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A young hunter must confront the value of life as he faces the loss of his grandfather. For John Borne's family, hunting has nothing to do with sport or manliness. It's a matter of survival. Every fall John and his grandfather go off into the woods to shoot the deer that puts meat on the table over the long Minnesota winter. But this year John's grandfather is dying, and John must hunt alone. John tracks a doe for two days, but as he closes in on his prey, he realizes he cannot shoot her. For John, the hunt is no longer about killing, but about life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442467126
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A young hunter must confront the value of life as he faces the loss of his grandfather. For John Borne's family, hunting has nothing to do with sport or manliness. It's a matter of survival. Every fall John and his grandfather go off into the woods to shoot the deer that puts meat on the table over the long Minnesota winter. But this year John's grandfather is dying, and John must hunt alone. John tracks a doe for two days, but as he closes in on his prey, he realizes he cannot shoot her. For John, the hunt is no longer about killing, but about life.
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1984830287
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR YOUTH LITERATURE Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal • Booklist • The Horn Book • New York Public Library Welcome to the Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom’s plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance and at the Golden Palace—the restaurant that’s been in her family for generations—she makes some discoveries.For instance: You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food. People can surprise you. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes in disappointing ways. And the Golden Palace has secrets... But the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Like, why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting? Who are the people in the photographs on the office wall? And when she discovers that a beloved family treasure has gone missing—and someone has left a racist note—Maizy decides it’s time to find the answers.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1984830287
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR YOUTH LITERATURE Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal • Booklist • The Horn Book • New York Public Library Welcome to the Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom’s plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance and at the Golden Palace—the restaurant that’s been in her family for generations—she makes some discoveries.For instance: You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food. People can surprise you. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes in disappointing ways. And the Golden Palace has secrets... But the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Like, why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting? Who are the people in the photographs on the office wall? And when she discovers that a beloved family treasure has gone missing—and someone has left a racist note—Maizy decides it’s time to find the answers.
My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks
Author: Brenda J. Child
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873519388
Category : Ojibwa Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Child uses her grandparents' story as a gateway into discussion of various kinds of labor and survival in Great Lakes Ojibwe communities, from traditional ricing to opportunistic bootlegging, from healing dances to sustainable fishing. The result is a portrait of daily work and family life on reservations in the first half of the twentieth century"--
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873519388
Category : Ojibwa Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Child uses her grandparents' story as a gateway into discussion of various kinds of labor and survival in Great Lakes Ojibwe communities, from traditional ricing to opportunistic bootlegging, from healing dances to sustainable fishing. The result is a portrait of daily work and family life on reservations in the first half of the twentieth century"--
Lost Minnesota
Author: Jack El-Hai
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452904641
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Tells the stories behind 89 of the lost buildings and landmarks of Minnesota, from rural and small-town Minnesota, as well as from the state's metropolitan and suburban areas.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452904641
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Tells the stories behind 89 of the lost buildings and landmarks of Minnesota, from rural and small-town Minnesota, as well as from the state's metropolitan and suburban areas.
Equipping Grandparents (Grandparenting Matters)
Author:
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493414704
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Many powerful voices are influencing our grandchildren, from those at home and in their schools to those in the world of entertainment and media. What can you as a grandparent do to speak wisdom and godliness into their lives? Equipping Grandparents is a brief book to teach pastors how to begin a grandparenting ministry in their church.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493414704
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Many powerful voices are influencing our grandchildren, from those at home and in their schools to those in the world of entertainment and media. What can you as a grandparent do to speak wisdom and godliness into their lives? Equipping Grandparents is a brief book to teach pastors how to begin a grandparenting ministry in their church.
Grandparenting (Grandparenting Matters)
Author: Dr. Josh Mulvihill
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493414682
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Many powerful voices are influencing our grandchildren, from those at home and in their schools to those in the world of entertainment and media. What can you as a grandparent do to speak wisdom and godliness into their lives? Grandparenting gives you a biblical foundation for investing spiritually in your grandkids, walking you through the principles of influencing them for Christ--from sharing with unbelieving grandkids to discipling them into a mature faith. This book is perfect for individual use, small groups, or Sunday school classes. A Grandparenting DVD is available that features eight family ministry experts with over five hours of video content. Two other resources are also available: Biblical Grandparenting is a full-length leadership book that places grandparenting ministry on a firm scriptural foundation. It is ideal for pastors and church leaders as well as for use in the classroom at seminaries. Equipping Grandparents is a brief book to teach pastors how to begin a grandparenting ministry in their church.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493414682
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Many powerful voices are influencing our grandchildren, from those at home and in their schools to those in the world of entertainment and media. What can you as a grandparent do to speak wisdom and godliness into their lives? Grandparenting gives you a biblical foundation for investing spiritually in your grandkids, walking you through the principles of influencing them for Christ--from sharing with unbelieving grandkids to discipling them into a mature faith. This book is perfect for individual use, small groups, or Sunday school classes. A Grandparenting DVD is available that features eight family ministry experts with over five hours of video content. Two other resources are also available: Biblical Grandparenting is a full-length leadership book that places grandparenting ministry on a firm scriptural foundation. It is ideal for pastors and church leaders as well as for use in the classroom at seminaries. Equipping Grandparents is a brief book to teach pastors how to begin a grandparenting ministry in their church.
Grandma, Tell Me Your Memories
Author: Kathy Lashier
Publisher: CQ Products
ISBN: 9781563830372
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"Grandma, Tell Me Your Memories poses one question a day to spark lifetime memories, with space on the page to fill in a short story or memory of the subject. The book can be filled out and given as a gift or can be given to your Grandma to fill out and return full of her recollections – a gift that will be treasured for years to come. There are six books in the Memory-A-Day series (Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Dad, To the Best of My Recollection, To My Dear Friend). "
Publisher: CQ Products
ISBN: 9781563830372
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"Grandma, Tell Me Your Memories poses one question a day to spark lifetime memories, with space on the page to fill in a short story or memory of the subject. The book can be filled out and given as a gift or can be given to your Grandma to fill out and return full of her recollections – a gift that will be treasured for years to come. There are six books in the Memory-A-Day series (Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Dad, To the Best of My Recollection, To My Dear Friend). "