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First North Americans volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
Clan fighting over a powerful totemic mask has brought the Mound Builder people of the Great Lakes region to the edge of destruction. It is up to Star Shell, daughter of a Hopewell chief, to rid her people of this curse. Along with her companions: Otter, a trader; Pearl, a runaway; and Green Spider, either prophet or madman, she braves the stormy waters of the lakes to reach the majestic waterfall known as Roaring Water. She is determined to banish...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
North America's forgotten past volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
With the corn crop failing and the Cahokia chiefs' lust for tribute growing, a warchief and the warrior woman he loves look to the gods for a sign of hope for their people.
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 12
Language
English
Description
Creates a fictionalized account of the experiences of the Kennewick Man, a Caucasoid male mummy dating back more than nine thousand years that was found in the Pacific Northwest, speculating as to why he was in North America, how he got there, and what he saw.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1916, to the shock of the scientific community and the world at large, a Florida geologist discovered human remains mixed with the bones of prehistoric animals in a Vero Beach canal and proclaimed that humans had lived in North America since the Ice Age. These new findings by Elias Sellards flew in the face of prevailing wisdom, which held that humans first came to the continent only 6,000 years ago. His claim was snubbed by the top scientists...
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