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1) The prairie
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The Prairie marks the final chapter in James Fenimore Cooper’s great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Though nearly ninety in 1804, Bumppo, now on the Great Plains, is still a competent frontiersman and trapper. Once more he is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an emigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush and his miscreant brother-in-law, Abiram White. And once again, this great man of nature is called upon to exhibit...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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1000L
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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.".
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Western writer Jim R. Woolard's classic award-winning debut still rides hard and fires point blank from all barrels . . .
Bitter experience has taught Matthan Hannar wound his way upriver, avoiding settlers that wanted to hang him, and Indians seeking fresh scalps. When he spied Zelda Shaw struggling for her life with a Shawnee brave, he could stay hidden no longer. But saving her life meant two people had to be protected from the cold,...
Bitter experience has taught Matthan Hannar wound his way upriver, avoiding settlers that wanted to hang him, and Indians seeking fresh scalps. When he spied Zelda Shaw struggling for her life with a Shawnee brave, he could stay hidden no longer. But saving her life meant two people had to be protected from the cold,...
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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
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Sora, the High Chieftess of the Black Falcon Nation, has been banished by her own people until she can find healing for her broken spirit. Her seductive, murderous rampages have led to war with nearby clans and caused dissension in her own, as well. If another body was to turn up, Sora will certainly be blamed-even her own clan will demand her death. Now facing her thirty-third winter, she and her husband Flint are wandering the land searching frantically...
8) Crest
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Call of the rift volume 3
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HL 750L
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English
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Kateiko is back in the third installment of the alternative high historical fantasy Call of the Rift series. Before Flight, in another world beyond the veil, Kateiko must leave her family to salvage a life she once desperately wanted, or stay with them and build a new life with those she swore to protect.
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900L
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John Shefford had found a new life with Fay Larkin. When she was charged with murder, the easy part was breaking her out of jail. After that he had the posse to worry about, violent bands of Indians, a murderous trek across a trackless waste, and a brutal passage through white water hell.
10) Raleigh's page
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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750L
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In the late 16th century, fifteen-year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia, where he helps to establish relations with the Indians.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
HL 540L
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English
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"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...
12) Star path
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2019.
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Cahokia recovers from a year of chaos following a near civil war and the god incarnate, Morning Star, has declared that his human sister Night Shadow Star and her slave Fire Cat must make a dangerous journey to far off Cofitachequi. For an old threat has arisen on the other side of the great eastern mountains - their brother, Walking Smoke, a madman who is convinced that he is the true deity destined to rule Cahokia.
13) Moon hunt
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Morning Star novels volume 3
People of Cahokia volume 03
Morning star trilogy volume 03
North America's forgotten past volume 24
People of Cahokia volume 03
Morning star trilogy volume 03
North America's forgotten past volume 24
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Journeying to Cahokia to become the sacrificial promised bride of the Morning Star, Whispering Dawn, a woman carrying dark secrets and powers, is carried away to the Underworld, where she must rescue captured souls at the side of an embittered Fire Cat.
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2022.
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"Lightning Shell marks the dramatic conclusion to the People of Cahokia sub-series by bestselling authors W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Spotted Wrist's squadrons are about to launch an assault on Evening Star Town. Meanwhile, the new Keeper's loyal squadrons have taken control of central Cahokia. Blue Heron's enemies have declared her dead, a supposed victim of the fire that consumed her palace. She's alive and in the end it will be her wits,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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A small band of pioneers struggle valiantly to keep their ancestors' dreams alive in an unforgiving, drought stricken land. Driven by the promise of an awesome vision, a heroic young dreamer and a fearless woman warrior unite to lead their people to a magnificent destiny. An epic filled with tragedy and triumph, courage and conflict.
16) Texas!
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Wagons West. Main series volume 5
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English
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Texas, a new republic battles for freedom and the same brave Americans that rode west to Oregon volunteer to defend her liberty.
17) Ouabache
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2011.
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"Ouabache" is the story of a boy and his mother struggling to find their place on the frontier of French Colonial North America. Featuring actual events and characters from history the story follows Charlotte and her son as they move from the Mississippi Delta to the Wabash River Valley, painting a vivid picture of life among the French and Native people who occupied the land in the eighteenth century.
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