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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
2) Finding moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
An American undertakes a dangerous search in Asia for his Amerasian niece. When his brother is killed in a helicopter crash and the Vietnamese wife dies soon after, Mathias Moon, a Colorado newsman, flies to find the girl. In the course of the search--from the teeming streets of Manila to the jungles of Cambodia--Moon finds himself too.
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 3
Navajo mysteries volume 03
Leaphorn and Chee volume 03
G.K. Hall large print book
Navajo mysteries volume 03
Leaphorn and Chee volume 03
G.K. Hall large print book
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and of witches. But Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police knows his people as well as he knows cold-blooded killers. His incredible investigation carries him from a dead man's secret to a kidnap scheme, to a conspiracy that stretches back more than one hundred years. Leaphorn arrives at the threshold...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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Description
For two years, Ellis traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut; some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope.
5) Coyote waits
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 10
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 10
Navajo mysteries volume 10
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 10
Navajo mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez--a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim...
6) Skeleton man
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 17
Navajo mysteries volume 17
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 17
Leaphorn and Chee volume 17
Navajo mysteries volume 17
Navaho Jim Chee and Leaphorn volume 17
Leaphorn and Chee volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As the FBI ineptly pursues three men who raided a Ute tribe's gambling casino, Joe Leaphorn uncovers a pattern connecting this crime with the exploits of a legendary Ute hero-bandit, and Jim Chee finds a fatal flaw in the federal theory that makes a wounded deputy a suspect.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
9) Black sun
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Series
Between earth and sky volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"A god will return when the earth and sky converge under the black sun in the holy city of Tova... The winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose...
10) The wailing wind
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Officer Bernadette Manuelito finds the dead man slumped over in the cab of a pickup, with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket...and a tobacco tin filled with placer gold. She figures he{u2019}s just another drunk--an assumption that gets her in trouble for mishandling a crime scene and brings down the wrath of the FBI on her supervisor, Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. For Chee{u2019}s mentor, former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn,...
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Navajo mysteries volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 18
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 12
Navajo mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by former colleagues who seek his help when they need to solve a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers. But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe's -- his 'last case, ' unsolved, is one that continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just...
12) The sinister pig
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The investigations of Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee and his love interest border patrol officer Bernadette Manuelito converge when the murder of an ex-CIA agent on reservation property turns out to be tied to an exotic game ranch near the Mexican border, and the embezzlement of tribal funds.
13) Iron Lake
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
"A young Native American, Abel has come home to New Mexico from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his garndfather’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty and goading him into a destructive cycle of depravity and despair. A Pulitzer Prize-winning...
15) The painted drum
Author
Series
Love medicine volume 08
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in 1931, and was murdered seven years later. He reappears in 1992 on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who starts Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic rock-and-roll band.
17) Shadow tag
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Chronciles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene.
18) Pigs in heaven
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Brings together Taylor, Turtle and Alice from "The Bean Trees" together with a new cast - Jax, Barbie Sugar Boss, Oklahoma and Annawake Fourkiller. When six-year-old Turtle witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence, and her mother's belief in her, leads to a man's rescue.
"When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen and her mother's belief in her lead to a man's...
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Series
Ivory carver trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In prehistoric Alaska, an Aleut girl, unwanted and abused, changes the destiny of her tribe
Gray Bird wanted only sons. His daughter, Kiin, would have been killed at birth to make way for a male heir if not for the tribal chief, Kayugh, who claimed the infant as a future wife for one of his two young sons. Sixteen years later, Kiin is caught between the two brothers: one to whom she is promised, the other whom she desires. But the evil...
Gray Bird wanted only sons. His daughter, Kiin, would have been killed at birth to make way for a male heir if not for the tribal chief, Kayugh, who claimed the infant as a future wife for one of his two young sons. Sixteen years later, Kiin is caught between the two brothers: one to whom she is promised, the other whom she desires. But the evil...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival is a classic Athabascan Indian tale of survival, filled with suspense and wisdom as told by Velma Wallis, an outstanding Native American writer. Her style is a refreshing blend of contemporary and traditional, and her choice of subject matter challenges the taboos of her past. Yet her themes are modern -- empowerment of women, the aging of America, and a growing interest in Native American...
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