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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.
4) Zia
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana, whose story was told in "The Island of the Blue Dolphins."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After he feels a mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods surrounding North Mountains School, Armie looks to the tales of his Shawnee ancestors for guidance about the dangerous monster lurking in the water.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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"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
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white...
10) Skeleton Man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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.
11) Arilla Sun Down
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c.1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A young girl, half African-American and half Indian, lives in a small town where her life revolves around family, school, and friends.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas's island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something...
Author
Series
Newbery Honor Book volume 1942
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters with whom she ultimately chooses to stay.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
17) The chief
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Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1995, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.".
18) The brave
Author
Series
Contender volume Bk. 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
19) Warrior angel
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Native American boxer of the Moscondaga Nation, Sonny Bear must fight to retain his heavyweight championship title.
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: we are still here"--