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1) Zia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana, whose story was told in "The Island of the Blue Dolphins."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Forced into a summer internship, sixteen-year-old Perry Firekeeper-Birch discovers the local university holds sacred Ojibwe artifacts and remains, and with the help of her twin sister and fellow interns she embarks on a journey to repatriate the remains and uncovers a deadly mystery involving missing Indigenous women.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
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Description
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Louise Wolfe's first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It's her senior year, anyway, and she'd rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, the ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's...
5) The chief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the verge of having a shot at the heavyweight boxing championship, nineteen-year-old Sonny Bear finds himself with conflicting loyalties when trouble erupts on his reservation over the construction of a new gambling casino. Sequel to "The Brave."
Author
Series
Marrow thieves novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous population-- and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow-- and dreams-- means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
Author
Series
Marrow thieves novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a fifteen-year-old sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1350L
Language
English
Description
"The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists. The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing...
11) Mystic
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she's come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead"--
12) Warrior angel
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Native American boxer of the Moscondaga Nation, Sonny Bear must fight to retain his heavyweight championship title.
13) Saturnalia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
15) Elatsoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...
16) Horizon
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"Now that she's gained mastery over her powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire Santos faces her ultimate enemy, the Richters. But on the horizon is a new and even deadlier foe, a powerful prophet determined to help the Richters bring about the end of the world. And even worse, the prophet's daughter is someone painfully close to Daire. Dace's ex-girlfriend, Phyre. With the odds stacked against her and foes at every turn, will Daire survive long enough to...
17) The horsecatcher
Author
Pub. Date
1986, c1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1310L
Language
English
Description
Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1876, after interfering with the attempted lynching of a young Yahi Indian named Shanti, eighteen-year-old Reece finds his own life in danger and becomes intimately involved in the future of Shanti's people.
19) I am Regina
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In 1775, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up.
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In 1946, while her emotionally distant father is in occupied Japan, a twelve-year-old girl spends a year with her mother's relatives in a Tlingit Indian village in Alaska and begins to love and respect her heritage as she confronts the secret of her mother's disappearance.
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