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Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the "ancient enemy," and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A "stellar collection" of stories about navigating life off the reservation, filled with laughter and heartbreak (People).
In these lyrical, affectionate tales from the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters navigate the crossroads of culture, battle stereotypes, and find themselves through everything...
In these lyrical, affectionate tales from the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters navigate the crossroads of culture, battle stereotypes, and find themselves through everything...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the daily lives, culture, beliefs, social structure, and environment of some of the Native American peoples who lived in the American Southwest at the time of the arrival of European settlers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the daily lives, culture, beliefs, social structure, and environment of some of the Native American peoples who lived in the Great Plains region of North America before their contact with European settlers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the daily lives, culture, beliefs, social structure, and environment of some of the Native American peoples who lived on the Northwest coast of North America before the coming of Europeans.
Author
Publisher
Globe
Pub. Date
c1947
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Young Major Heyward is assigned to escort Cora and Alice Munro through the dangerous frontier wilderness and deliver them safely to their father at Fort William Henry. But their guide, the evil Magua, leads the two women and their escorts into a trap. The frontiersman Hawkeye and his Mohican companions set out to rescue the kidnapped women, but the sly and clever Magua is the most murderous of enemies.
To help students experience...
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the daily lives, culture, beliefs, social structure, and environment of some of the diverse Native American peoples who lived in the northeastern part of North America when the Europeans began to arrive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nebraska Paperback
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young Sioux warrior earns the right to be called historian for his tribe after numerous adventures and trials which test his ability to tell the story of his people with truth and courage.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
"Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian...
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian...
14) The horsecatcher
Author
Publisher
Westminster Press
Pub. Date
c1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Young Elk, a Cheyenne Indian, encountering scorn when he chose not to be a warrior but a horsecatcher, sets out to capture White Stallion from Commanche country to prove his bravery.
Newbery honor book: 1958.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman ahead of her time, Mary Breydon knew how to get things done. Raised on a Virginia plantation, she learned how to care for livestock, respect her workers, and keep good books. But after her husband is killed, Mary must provide for her young daughter by running a stage coach station on the Cherokee Trail. With the help of an Irish maid and a mysterious stranger, Mary faces challenges that even the men eagerly anticipating her failure would have...
16) Horizon
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With the odds stacked against her and foes at every turn, will Daire, a Soul Seeker who can navigate the worlds between the living and dead, survive long enough to create the future she desires with Dace?
17) Hondo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
He was etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.
18) Shifting
Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After bouncing from foster home to foster home since the age of five, almost-eighteen-year-old Maggie Mae Mortensen arrives in Silver City, New Mexico, to finish high school and try to escape her reputation as a trouble-maker, only to face ostracism in her new school and a band of evil Navajo Skinwalkers who want her dead.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics,...
20) There there
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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...