Author Description

Katie couldn't move. She felt the cold, smooth ice that surrounded her. Her eyes darted back and forth looking for a way out. Her hands scraped frantically at the walls of ice. She was trapped. History has never seemed more real than in Lynne Ruth Smyles's adventurous new children's book, Michigan History Nightmares. Katie wakes up for her first day of third grade terrified-mostly due to a frightening dream she had in which she was trapped inside a glacier! Shaking off her jitters, she joins best friends Nick and Gary for school. But when Katie catches a glimpse of a model glacier in the classroom, she has a feeling something terrible is about to happen. Soon after the teacher rewards their excellent group work with a special state pen, the friends shockingly find themselves sucked through their computer screens and trapped inside a giant glacier-just like Katie's dream! As the group tries to find a way home, they embark on a journey through Michigan's varied history, learning firsthand how the state's lower peninsula was actually formed. This fun and educational children's story will delight both parents and kids as they learn that history is living all around us!