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1) Grass heart
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
"In 1837 a smallpox epidemic devastated the Mandan Indians of the Great Plains. This novel shows the horrifying reality not only of the epidemic but also of Sioux slavery, cultural plundering by anthropologists, and exile. The heroine is a Mandan Indian princess, whose courage and spirit recall the heroines of M.M.B. Walsh's earlier novels.
We see Grass Heart through her devotion to her father, Good Plume, whom she rescues from misfortune more than...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her best-selling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization and wants her help on an AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him--her publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a bit later. The truth is that Alma is seriously sidetracked...
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