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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four-year-old John Butler is captured by the Delaware Indians and is adopted by one of the tribes leaders. Suddenly, after 11 years among the Delaware people, he is forced to return to his original home and parents by the Bouquet military expedition of 1765. But his deep love for and loyalty to his Indian parents and his cousin, Half Arrow, is his reason for rejecting the white man's civilization.
3) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes at the end of each chapter.
6) I am Regina
Author
Publisher
Dell Publ
Pub. Date
[1993], c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.
Author
Series
Frontier time traveler volume 1
Publisher
Continuous MILE
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A historical fiction novel of adventure, tragedy, and romance in the early days of Yellowstone... Pennsylvania, 1971: Graham Davidson is a young man with survivor's guilt after the death of three siblings. Estranged from his father and seeking a direction in his life, Graham learns about vision quests from a Crow Indian. He secures seasonal employment in Yellowstone National Park and embarks on a spiritual journey. Wyoming Territory, 1871: Under...
Author
Series
Hester's hunt for home volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Hester, [a] ... Native American who was rescued as an infant by an Amish couple, now lives in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She shares a house with Bappie King, another Amish woman, living their independent lives in the fast-growing mid-18th-century city ... And then one day, Noah comes back: Noah, the first child born to Hans and Kate Zug, the Amish couple who had welcomed Hester during their childless years ... When Noah invites Hester to join...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The shocking assassination of a major rival to UMWA president Tony Boyle catalyzed groundbreaking reform in the coal mining industry. In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft-coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Seven months earlier, Yablonski had announced his campaign to oust the corrupt...
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"This collection interweaves the voices of students' descendants, poets, and activists with cutting edge research by Native and non-Native scholars to reveal the complex history and enduring legacies of the school that spearheaded the federal campaign for Indian assimilation."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Coal Country Killing: A Culture, A Union, And The Murders That Changed It All, revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America "reform candidate" Jock Yablonski, and murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse. But driving the story are the extraordinary efforts of a tenacious special prosecutor and his "army" of investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders, and...
15) Thomas
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the early years of the Revolutionary War, eleven-year-old Thomas and his family escape a bloody massacre at Wyoming Valley and endure innumerable hardships as they try to make their way to Philadelphia.
16) The imperial gridiron: manhood, civilization, and football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Imperial Gridiron examines the competing versions of manhood at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918"--
Publisher
Enthuse Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from religious persecution in Germany, the Leininger family builds a homestead in Pennsylvania; only to find themselves caught in the French and Indian War. When daughters Barbara and Regina are kidnapped by the Delaware, the tribe takes them to Ohio. Will their faith in God and devotion to each other sustain them in the harsh wilderness? Based on a true story.