When Rosie from Redville meets Indigo and his friends, her monochromatic world becomes alight with color. The Story of Redville is a sweet, small tale that tackles big issues and helps children learn about the joy of diversity.

In the first Swifty book, Jimmy Robinson finds the wreck of an aeroplane in the back corner of a hangar. A voice comes from the wreck asking Jimmy to mend him so that he can fly again, and in return he will teach Jimmy how to fly! Jimmy does the job and this was the start of their many adventures together. In book two, Swifty starts to lose his magic and has to go with Jimmy on an adventurous journey to the Magic Aeroplane Factory in order to have it renewed. In book three, eight more exciting adventures take place and then the lives of the three friends, Jimmy, Lucy and Johnny change direction when they notice the local effects of climate change on nature and decide to do something astonishing to begin the fight back.

Michigan in the Novel records 1,735 novels published from 1816 through 1996 that are set wholly or partially in the state of Michigan. Consulting literally thousands of novels and visiting scores of libraries, Robert Beasecker spent more than twenty years researching this exhaustive bibliography. Works included are mainstream fiction, mystery and romance novels, juveniles, religious tracts, dime novels, and other marginal or popular genre literature. Omitted are short stories, poetry, drama, screenplays and pageants, and serially published novels with no subsequent separate publication. Through its six indexes, Michigan in the Novel provides literary and cultural access to Michigan novels, classifying novels by to title, series, setting, chronology, subject and genre, and Michigan imprints. Intended to serve as a guide for students, teachers, scholars, and readers to explore Michigan's vast, varied, and rich literary landscape, Michigan in the Novel is the most expansive compilation of its kind.