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1) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
2) Cabin 102
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While on a cruise with his family, twelve-year-old Dusty encounters the ghost of an Arawak Indian girl through whom he comes to terms with his fears.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold. With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.
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