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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
2) Hiawatha
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Complete & Unabridged edition of the poetic tale of Hiawatha. Tells of an Indian hero & his mighty exploits in hunting, fishing & combat. A great leader, he converts his people from saavagery and isntructs them in the arts of peace.
3) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
4) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his older brother abandons him on a trip through the Southwest, fourteen-year-old Clay takes up with a Navajo Tribe, encounters the dangers of the wilderness, and discovers the fate of his long lost uncle.
8) Mr. Tucket
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
9) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
From back cover: "In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.".
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking Indigenous anthology for young people . . . A joyful invitation to celebrate the circle of ancestors together." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Edited by award–winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Native families from Nations across...
Edited by award–winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Native families from Nations across...
13) Indian shoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
14) Far North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
From the window of the small floatplane, fifteen-year-old Gabe Rogers is getting his first look at Canada's magnificent Northwest Territories with Raymond Providence, his roommate from boarding school. Below is the spectacular Nahanni River--wall-to-wall whitewater racing between sheer cliffs and plunging over Virginia Falls. The pilot sets the plane down on the lake-like surface of the upper river for a closer look at the thundering falls. Suddenly...
16) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 420L
Language
English
Description
Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name...a name that is sure to light up the sky.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 740L
Language
English
Description
Hiawatha, a Mohawk, is plotting revenge for the murder of his wife and daughters by the evil Onondaga Chief, Tadodaho, when he meets the Great Peacemaker, who enlists his help in bringing the nations together to share his vision of a new way of life marked by peace, love, and unity rather than war, hate, and fear. Includes historical notes.
Author
Language
English
Description
"On the eastern shores of the North American wilderness lives an Algonquin princess named Pocahontas, a curious 10-year-old who loves exploring the tidewater lands of her people. One day she encounters strangers, a group of people who look different from her own. She befriends them, and when her people come into conflict with these new settlers, Pocahontas courageously attempts to save a life by offering her own." --
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