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5) The Cherokee
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the traditional life of the Cherokee peoples in the southern Appalachian Mountains, their beliefs and sense of community, culture, their forced migration along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, and life in the 20th century and beyond.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons is the story of one man's remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear,...
12) Ravenmocker
Author
Series
Molly Bearpaw mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Language
English
Description
Asked to witness the autopsy of an elderly Cherokee man who died unexpectedly in his nursing home, native American Advocacy League Investigator Molly Bearpaw discovers that the dead man's heart has been stolen.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A case of adultery spirals into racial violence in 1870s Oklahoma Territory. The story begins when a white man seeks justice because a halfbreed is sleeping with his wife. There is a shootout, the races take side and blood flows.
15) Redbird's cry
Author
Series
Molly Bearpaw mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
An annual Cherokee celebration is disrupted by a poison dart that kills a native American activist, and investigator Molly Bearpaw confronts simmering grudges and ancient warnings to discover why.
16) Cherokee
Author
Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title introduces readers to the Cherokee people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
18) The Doe Boy
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
This coming-of-age films tells the story of Hunter, a half Cherokee with hemophilia (a "white man's disease"), whose teen angst is compounded by his confusing cultural identity. With an overprotective mother and a distant father, Hunter learns from his grandfather the courage to find the love he desperately seeks.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up impoverished and shuttled between different households, it seemed life was bound to take a certain path for Eddie Chuculate. Despite the challenges he faced, his upbringing was rich with love and bountiful lessons from his Creek and Cherokee heritage, deep-rooted traditions he embraced even as he learned to live within the culture of white, small-town America that dominated his migratory childhood. Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate...
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