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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Ruth, grieving her father's death, is pregnant and sent to a convent to await the baby's birth. Dora's abusive father is finally behind bars, but she feels she'll never truly be free from him. Alyce earns a dance scholarship, but struggles with the guilt of adandoning her father. And Hank, on the run with his two younger brothers, finds keeping them safe is harder outside their unhealthy home than he imagined. As each of these Alaskan teens trudge...
2) Canyons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Description
"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly to life. The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans portrays the inevitable conflict of opposed cultures and stands as a testament to the ways in which this struggle has been mythologized. Featuring the well-loved noble woodsman Natty Bumppo, or "Hawk-eye," Cooper's novel is a memorable...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
In the Pacific there is an island that look like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim. Once, Indians also lived on the island. When they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.
7) The brave
Author
Series
Contender volume Bk. 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York, seventeen-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by training with Alfred Brooks, who has left the sport to become a policeman.
8) Sacajawea
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Captured by her enemies, married to a foreigner, and a mother at age sixteen, Sacajawea lived a life of turmoil and change. Then in 1804, the mysterious young Shoshone woman known as Bird Woman met Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Acting as interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, Sacajawea bravely embarked on an epic journey that altered history forever. Hear her extraordinary story, told by Sacajawea and by William Clark, in alternating chapters and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...
11) Rez ball
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
12) Pocahontas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of 17th century Jamestown, Virginia.
13) The chief
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
On the verge of having a shot at the heavyweight boxing championship, nineteen-year-old Sonny Bear finds himself with conflicting loyalties when trouble erupts on his reservation over the construction of a new gambling casino. Sequel to "The Brave.".
14) Warrior angel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Native American boxer of the Moscondaga Nation, Sonny Bear must fight to retain his heavyweight championship title.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who terrorizes Ezra and his friend Nora George. Ezra gets into a terrible fight with Matt at school defending...
17) Hearts unbroken
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
Sixteen-year-old Clara Morris is facing an awkward summer with her father in the tiny upstate town of Redmarch Lake. Clara's relationship with her parents--and with life in general--has been strained since she lost her twin sister, Zoe, when the girls were eight. As a child, her sister had been her whole world--they even shared a secret invented twin language. Clara has managed to rebuild herself as best she can, but she still feels a hole in her...
19) Trust your name
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When the Choctaw Nation sponsors an all-Indian high school basketball team to compete in a summer tournament, the team includes Choctaw Bobby Byington and other Indian high school players from Eastern Oklahoma.
20) Skeleton Man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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.