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42) Francisco Vasquez de Coronado: famous journeys to the American Southwest and colonial New Mexico
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group's Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This book describes the journeys of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, one of the first European men to explore the American Southwest.
Publisher
Schlessinger Video Productions
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Brightly-colored graphics and animation, live-action portrayals of historic figures, engaging stories told from a child's point of view, and sing-along songs explore who the native Americans are, their diverse cultures, and the trials they have endured.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe what it would require to launch a voyage of discovery, what shipboard life would be like, and what the rewards would be using the voyages of Columbus as an example.
54) Sweetgrass
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.