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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
From internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith comes an epic story of a physicist, a general, a spy, and a hero who will change history forever.
In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select a test site for the first atomic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Pena, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian. These four...
Author
Series
Storyteller trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
A novel on the early Aleuts of Alaska. The heroine is K'os, a healing woman rendered infertile by a rape. The novel follows her campaign of revenge amid inter-tribal warfare.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
The third and last volume of a prehistoric saga set in the Aleutian Islands. Kiin, a woman carver of the First Men tribe, is widowed when her husband is killed by Raven of the Walrus People. He takes Kiin with him to his village, but Samiq, chief hunter and brother of the murdered man, plots revenge. By the author of My Sister the Moon.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Using illustrations that show the diversity in Native America and spare poetic text that emphasizes fry bread in terms of provenance, this volume tells the story of a post-colonial food that is a shared tradition for Native American families all across the North American continent. Includes a recipe and an extensive author note that delves into the social ways, foodways, and politics of America's 573 recognized tribes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
A novel on an Indian shaman in 13th Century America. She is Antelope, a blue-eyed Anazasi who becomes the object of desire and fear of the ruler of the City of the Great Sun. He desires her because she is beautiful and fears her because of her powers to communicate with spirits and foretell the future. By the author of She Who Remembers.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1994
Description
In the 17th Century, Margaret Addison, an Englishwoman married by proxy, sails to Quebec to join her husband. The ship is attacked by Indians, but Margaret is saved by an Indian chief. She will have to make an agonizing choice: honor her betrothed, or trade her heritage for her lover's alien culture. By the author of The Ravished Heart.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009
Description
By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls.
18) Dead reckoning
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1867 Texas, Jett, a girl passing as a boy while seeking her long-lost twin brother, joins forces with Honoraria Gibbons, an inventor, and White Fox, a young Army scout, to investigate a zombie army that is terrorizing the West.
19) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Awakened gently by Sun, Sailor sets off to explore new lands where he meets Fisher, and although they speak and dress differently, they find they have much in common. Includes author's note about the first encounter between a European explorer and a Native North American.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Collection of new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heart-rending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.
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