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1) Ramona
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Series
Avon volume 25130
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon publication, Ramona earned favorable comparisons to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and remains an influential sentimental novel to this day. Orphaned after the death of her foster...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 13
Language
English
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After years spent on ranches around Los Angeles, Clay Tahoma is delighted to be Virgin River's new veterinary assistant and the secluded community's wild beauty tugs at his Navajo roots. Lilly has encountered her share of strong, silent, traditional men within her own aboriginal community, and she's not interested in coming back for more. In her eyes, Clay's earthy, sexy appeal is just an act used to charm wealthy women like his ex-wife. She can't...
4) Floaters
Author
Language
English
Description
A story of harbor police, criminals, tourists, scam artists, and the America's Cup international sailing regattas.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California...
7) White Fang
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory, London's 1906 story chronicles the story of a half-dog, half-wolf beast in the wild. As opposed to his famous Call of the Wild tale of a domestic dog reverting to the wild, White Fang depicts a wild animal eventually becoming domesticated. It is a gripping tale told from the wolf's point of view about the hard life in the frozen wilds of the north. The story concludes with White Fang returning...
8) Ghost woman
Author
Publisher
Ticknor & Fields
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
An Indian woman named Soledad is forcibly introduced into the white community of Santa Barbara in the 1800s.
10) Ramona: a story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Ramona, an illegimate half-Indian orphan, lives a privileged life as a ward on the Moreno ranch. Her love for an Indian causes her to leave the ranch and plunges her into the tragedies and poverty of life among the Indians.
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 50
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"This album of essays, photographs, stories, and art chronicles some of the people and events that have played - and continue to play - a role in the lives of Native families in the Bay Area Indian community over the past seventy years"--P. 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Rendezvous novels volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years have passed since Sam Morgan came West from Pennsylvania and learned the perilous business of trapping in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Now, in 1840, he seems to face a bleak future. The fur trade has played out and he must find other means of making a living. Sam decides to return to California with his daughter Esperanza and start a new life.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
Description
Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Together, their stories tell of the plight of the urban Native American, grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.
14) The hours
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it....
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Language
English
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Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows...