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A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over the house. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds...
Author
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Chilling discoveries unearthed at a dig for Navajo clay pots bring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to the site and put them on the trail of stolen artifacts, a disappearing woman, and bizarre and mystifying murders.
"Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! “All of Tony Hillerman’s Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous.”٬٢٠١٤؛USA...
5) Zia
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1900 during the Passamaquoddy winter migration in Maine, Baby Zoo Sap falls off the family bobsled and the forest animals hearing his cries, gather to protect him until his father returns to find him.
Includes Passamaquoddy words or phrases.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An ancient and terrifying Narragansett native-American legend begins to come true for a teenage long-distance runner, whose recovery from the accident that killed her parents has stunned everyone, including her guardian aunt in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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In 1765, the arrival of an injured stranger from another tribe, traveling alone and apparently unable to speak, arouses suspicion in Kaya's Nez Percé village. Includes glossary and historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1949 in the Florida Everglades, a ten-year-old girl called Bones, whose father is part Miccosukee Indian, tries to discover what really happened when he is accused of two murders and sent to jail.
10) The dark pond
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After he feels a mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie looks to old Native American tales for guidance about the dangerous monster lurking in the water.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In late ninetenth-century Colorado, Elk Dress Girl, sister of Ute chief Ouray, is captured by Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors, rescued by the white "enemy," and finally returned to her home. Includes historical notes.
13) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When rumors that the white men are coming to remove her entire tribe from their land gains more credence, nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, begins to fear for the worst while her family considers moving west.
16) Written in stone
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A young girl in a Pacific Northwest Native American tribe in the 1920s must deal with the death of her father and the loss of her tribe's traditional ways"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[-2011]
Language
English
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson...
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