Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"People of the Mist takes us to the Chesapeake Bay of six hundred years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens to turn the entire Algonquin Nation against itself in a war that could destroy it as a people." "High Fox, the young man who had an obsessive love for Red Knot, is the prime suspect in the murder. The woman who loves him cannot believe him guilty, offering herself, body and soul, to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
A tale of the earliest people on the North American continent, set two millenia ago. The protagonist is Star Shell, daughter of a Hopewell chief, who undertakes a perilous journey to Niagara Falls to drown an evil totemic mask before it destroys her race. By the husband-and-wife team of archaeologists who wrote People of the Sea, People of the Wolf and People of the Fire.
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 12
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A tale spun around the controversial archaeological discovery of Kennewick Man, a caucasiod male mummy dating back more than 9,000 years, found in the Pacific Northwest on the banks of the Columbia River.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
With the help of a young village girl named Wren, Rumbler, the foretold "Manitou Child," escapes from Jumping Badger, the ruthless war leader who murdered his mother, destroyed his home, and kidnapped him in an attempt to seize control of the child of power.
Author
Series
North America's Forgotten Past volume 7
Publisher
Distributed by St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Pondwater, an albino teenager believed by his people to have extraordinary powers, sets out with his warrior wife to rescue her first husband who was captured and is being used as a lure to bring Pondwater into the hands of an enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The Great Sun Chief endangers the entire Anasazi empire when he sets out to kill Cornsilk, the child his wife secretly bore to another man fifteen years earlier, forcing the girl to flee her attackers, along with her friend Poor Singer, and struggle to survive while she seeks to discover her true identity.
Author
Series
First North American volume 4
Publisher
TOR
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
With the corn crop failing and the Cahokia chiefs' lust for tribute growing, a warchief and the warrior woman he loves look to the gods for a sign of hope for their people
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
The coastal people of what will be California, Arizona and New Mexico are struggling with the changing world around them. As the mammoths disappear, the seer Sunchaser must decide whether to shelter a beautiful stranger and risk angering the Spirits further.
Author
Series
Contact volume 1
Language
English
Description
This series portrays the devastating clash of cultures that followed the European invasion of early America. Dramatic, authentic, and deeply moving, this first book in the Contact series tells the story of the blood-drenched years that followed Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto's landing in "La Florida" in 1529 as seen entirely through the eyes of two courageous Native Americans.
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
A sweeping epic of prehistory, People of the Earth brings the true story of the ancestors of today's Native American peoples to life in an unforgettable saga of hardship and passion, of a woman torn between two peoples and two dreams, of the two men who love her and the third who must have her, and of the vision given to the peoples long ago by the spirit of the wolf.