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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians,...
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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"--
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"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey,...
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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A case of adultery spirals into racial violence in 1870s Oklahoma Territory. The story begins when a white man seeks justice because a halfbreed is sleeping with his wife. There is a shootout, the races take side and blood flows.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
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English
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The so-called homestead killers have been cutting a bloody swath across Oklahoma Territory, leaving behind a trail of corpses, slaughtering whole families on isolated farms and stealing their livestock. Deputy U. S. Marshal Jack Slade has been given the job of bringing back the butchers - alive. Slade follows the trail of bloodshed to the town of Paradise, where the citizens are up in arms, suspecting the Cherokees on a local reservation of committing...
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The University Press of Kentucky
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English
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Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners of...
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[[1994] 1994]
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English
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The story of the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal west of the Cherokee Indians from their home in Georgia. It is told as a romance between two Cherokees, The Blade Stuart, a plantation owner who sees the writing on the wall and wants to take action--better a new home than to be wiped out--and Temple Gordon, an educated, idealistic woman who opposes giving inches
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Series
Jane Yellowrock novels volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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"The Vampire Council of New Orleans has hired Jane to hunt and kill one of their own who has broken sacred ancient rules. But she quickly realizes that in a community that is thousands of years old, loyalties run deep. With the help of her witch best friend and local vigilantes, Jane finds herself caught between bitter rivalries--and closer than ever to the secret origin of the entire vampire race. But in a city of old grudges and dark magic, Jane...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Kah-nung-da-tla-geh - the great Cherokee chieftain known as the Ridge - had one foot in each of two worlds. The first was that of his ancestors; the second was a new world of forced change, war, and death that arrived with the white man. His visionary leadership led the Cherokee into the future as one nation. But the white tide continued, the Ridge's judgment was flung aside in favor of war, and his contribution to the Cherokee Nation was forgotten...
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Sophie Trace trilogy volume 1
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Brill Jessup, unable to forgive her husband for his infidelity, decides to get a fresh start by moving her family to Sophie Trace, Tennessee, where she becomes the first female police chief of the small town, and she is barely settled before people start disappearing, leaving her to calms fears that the spirits of the departed Cherokee are responsible while searching for the real enemy.
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Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"When Linden Birchfield arrives in the Snowbird Cherokee community to organize the 180th commemoration of the Trail of Tears, she runs head on -- literally -- into arrogant, former army sniper Walker Crowe. A descendant of the Cherokee who evaded deportation by hiding in the rugged Snowbird Mountains, Walker believes no good can result from stirring up the animosity between his people and the white Appalachian residents whose ancestors looted the...
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Jane Yellowrock novels volume 3
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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"Things are heating up in the Big Easy. Weres have announced their existence to the world, and revived the bitter tensions that run between them and their old enemies: vampires. As a trusted employee of Leo Pellissier, Blood Master of the City, Jane finds herself caught in the cross fire. When Jane is attacked by a pack of marauding werewolves, she is thankful for the help of a mysterious stranger named Girrard. He explains that he used to be Leo's...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, finds his dual occupations collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro's most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy Panther leads a protest. Words and fists fly. When Panther turns up executed on the grave of the deceased woman, Barry is forced to confront her family as the...
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's...
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