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42) Long Night Moon
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and illustrations depict the varied seasonal full moons that change and assume personalities of their own throughout the year.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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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
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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.
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"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--
50) The ghost rifle
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"Descended from a long line of ramblers and rogues, Jack Picaro came to America to seek his fortune. But after killing his best friend in a drunken duel, the apprentice gunsmith flees westward, leaving everything he knows behind. As Jack ventures up the Missouri River, he finds an unspoiled land where a man can live free - and also be attacked by an Arikara war party. His rifle stolen in the bloody skirmish, Jack sets out alone to reclaim it. His...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
Author
Series
Blast to the past volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Abigail, Jacob, Zack, and Bo travel back in time to meet Sacagawea. They must convince her not to give up on her dream even though they do not know what her dream is.
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.
Author
Series
Three Cousins Detective Club volume 9
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Excited at the prospect of meeting Timothy's Native American pen pal at an All-Tribes Powwow, the three cousins soon find themselves involved in another investigation when they discover a thief in their midst.
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.
59) Raleigh's page
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the late 16th century, fifteen-year-old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia, where he helps to establish relations with the Indians.
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.
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