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 (where she and her family are the only Asian Americans) 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. And...

A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her family.

Gigantic walleyes and a search for the legendary Lost City await Josey and Mason. The only person that can help them is a loner who hates everything about the Ice Queen. Can the two kids catch the Ice Queen and save the family bait shop?

Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.

Kirsten, a young girl living on the Minnesota frontier, tries to learn the truth about what really happened to her friend and neighbor Erik Sandahl, who has disappeared and is widely believed to have run out on his promises and responsibilities.

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul-the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's...

The Devils' Pass High School is hosting a quiz contest, which sounds perfect to Evie Allen, who is acknowledged as the smartest kid in eighth grade, (and the youngest, though not the most popular)--but in Devils' Pass, Minnesota, nothing is quite what it seems, and when it turns out that the contest is being run by zombies looking for smart brains it becomes a case for the young monster hunters of the Loyal Order of Helga, AKA Evie and her friends....

"Join Luke and his family in Whitetail Adventures and experience all the wonders of a Minnesota deer camp. In this tale, Luke is finally old enough to join his family on his first whitetail deer hunt, and he has all kinds of advice from his fellow hunters. When Luke’s dad brings him deep into a Northern Minnesota swamp for a magical morning hunt, Luke finds adventure and nature at every turn in the trail. One thing’s for sure—you won’t believe...

When a super-size truck carrying the stars of "Hollywood's Extreme Stunt Dogs" shows up in Pembrook, Kito and the gang wonder if the dogs are truly amazing or if they are in extreme danger.

When they spend a week at their aunt and uncle's farm without any electronic entertainment, Aldo and his brother try to find other ways to occupy themselves while dealing with their twin cousins, in a book featuring vocabulary starting with C.