The Great Lakes

A group of new volumes gathers gems from places and cultures around the world. The Stories from Where We Live Series adds The Great Lakes, ed. by Sara St. Antoine, illus. by Trudy Nicholson, which explores the region that stretches from Minnesota east to Niagara Falls. Organized into sections with titles such as ""Adventures"" and ""Reapers and Sowers,"" this collection of poems, stories and essays from early Ojibwe storytellers to contemporary urban authors reflect the four seasons-such as Ellen Creager's ""The Ice Deer"" about a deer trapped on the partially frozen surface of Lake St. Clair and watching a Fourth of July display over Lake Michigan in ""Fireworks!"" by Katherine Crawford Roby. The volume reflects an ecologically and culturally diverse area from a variety of perspectives.