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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Alexie reveals himself to be a more fearless writer than one might ever have imagined: the stories are bold, uncensored, raucous,and sexy ...apt and true...The lives he portrays are so finely detailed, the tales so carefullly woven , that even the most culturally sheltered reader is transported."
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
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Series
Spanish bit saga volume 2
Language
English
Description
A Southern Indian tribe under the leadership of Heads Off is transformed into warriors when they adapt the "elkdogs"--horses--as part of their culture.
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Language
English
Description
"Classically trained pianist and singer Natalie Curtis isolated herself for five years after a breakdown just before she was to debut with the New York Philharmonic. Guilt-ridden and songless, Natalie can't seem to recapture the joy music once brought her. In 1902, her brother invites her to join him in the West to search for healing. What she finds are songs she'd never before encountered--the haunting melodies, rhythms, and stories of Native Americans....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Youngsters learn fundamental points of geography in this tale of Paddle-to-the-Sea, a figurine of a little person in a canoe carved by an Indian boy to follow his course through different waterways to the ocean.
49) 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.
50) Catlow
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends since childhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become a top cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrous confrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw. And when he crossed that line, it was up to U.S. Marshal Ben Cowan to bring him in alive--if only Catlow would give him the chance...
52) The red heart
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Language
English
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Description
A fictionalized account of Frances Slocum, a Quaker girl from Pennsylvania, kidnaped at the age of five by Indians and later forced to choose between the two cultures. Through her eyes is seen the destruction of the Indians.51
53) Wind River
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
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Series
American girls collection. Kaya, 1764 volume 4
American girls collection. Kaya 1764 volume 4
American girl 1764 volume 04
American girl.Kaya volume 04
American girls collection. Kaya 1764 volume 4
American girl 1764 volume 04
American girl.Kaya volume 04
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies. Includes historical notes on Nez Percé children.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has. But the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever-- but that will eventually...
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English
Description
A fully updated and revised edition of FOF's 1999 Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Revised Edition with 60 new entries, covers more than 200 American Indian tribes of North America. Includes 259 color illustrations (12 new to this edition), 11 color maps, cross-references, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.
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English
Description
The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier, and its final recent chapter adds a major twist. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a longtime student of Indian history and culture, tells a radically new story, thanks...
60) 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."
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