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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of short, illustrated biographies of sixteen influential Native Americans, from Tisquantum, who helped the Pilgrims survive the winter of 1622, to Sherman Alexie, a contemporary poet, novelist, and screenwriter.
7) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Two boys, separated by time and different cultures, forge a mystical connection when fifteen-year-old Brennan Cole finds the skull of Coyote Runs, an Indian boy killed on his first raid, and becomes obsessed with returning it to a sacred place
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Dear America series. In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the US government forcibly removed numerous Native American tribes from the country's eastern states. In long, often merciless marches in which many of the Indians died, soldiers relocated them in selected regions of the American West.
15) Mr. Tucket
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tucket series, bk. 1. In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Chief Sitting Bull, who led the Lakota Sioux against the forces of the United States government who were taking their land.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery Award, 1961. Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as San Nicolas Island. Blue dolphins splash in the water surrounding it, sea otters play in the kelp beds, and seabirds roost in its crags. Once, Indians also lived on the island-- until one day they decided to leave and sailed to the east. A young girl was left behind. Karana is that girl. Year after year, she waits for the ship to come back....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
People from all over the world come to explore Niagara: among them the daredevils determined to tumble down or walk across the falls on tightrope. Learn about the hare-brained stunts and how the falls were formed and how--one day--they will disappear.