More Great Reads
The Wisconsin Water Library is proud to be collaborating with the Wisconsin Library Association on the Great Lakes, Great Read program. One of the challenges of the project is choosing just two books.
Here are some of our favorites for the young and the young at heart. To see more, be sure to visit the Great Lakes, Great Read website.
The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes by Lynne Heasley. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2022.
The Fishermen, the Horse, and the Sea by Barbara M. Joosse. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2021.
The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure by Barbara Rosenstock. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2024.
HOMES by Moheb Soliman. Minneapolis, Minn.: Coffee House Press, 2021.
The Life of the Lakes: A Guide to the Great Lakes Fishery, 4th edition by Brandon C Schroeder and Shari Dann. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Pandora’s Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway by Jeff Alexander. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2011.
People of the Sturgeon by Kathleen Kline, Fred Binkowski, Ron Bruch. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2009.
Stories from the Wreckage: A Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks by John Odin Jensen. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019.
Anyone in Wisconsin can borrow these books. Just email askwater@aqua.wisc.edu.