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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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.
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English
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In 1879 a small band of Ute Indians went wild in the Colorado Rockies and ambushed a force of soldiers, murdered their Indian agent and his employees, and took three women hostage. This was the Massacre at White River, and its consequences included the removal of the Ute tribe to barren lands, while the western slope of Colorado was opened to white settlement.
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Newbery Honor Book volume 1942
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Accounts of young Indians and whites who were unwillingly subjected to life in an alien culture during the years of American settlement of the West. Includes the stories of an Osage boy stolen and sold into plantation slavery by the Cherokees and a white girl whose Indian captors provided for her future welfare by giving her a tribal tattoo.
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Heirs of Montana volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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From her favorite hilltop perch, the unadorned beauty of Montana fills Dianne Chadwick with serenity and purpose. But fear gnaws at that peace, for her fiancé, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. When accidents and illness threaten those at the Diamond V ranch, Dianne searches for a haven from the storm that surrounds her. But with Cole's fate uncertain and another man proclaiming his love for her, Dianne's faith is a tenuous anchor...
7) Badger boy
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Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Texas frontier. The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded.
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English
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"To Hawk O'Toole, she was a pawn in a desperate gamble to help his people. To Miranda Price, he was a stranger who'd done the unthinkable: kidnapped her and her son. Held hostage, she is baffled by her captor who seems both tender and harsh. Hawk must remember that Miranda is the enemy even when he desires her. A shocking revelation reveals the truth about her, her past and the man who holds her hostage."--Jacket.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Rival Indian tribes are threatening war and ruthless white men, hoping to exploit the tensions, kidnap a settler's beautiful daughter. Kin and Yance Sackett journey along the Warrior's Path to rescue the girl from her captors.
14) I am Regina
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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.
15) Dark passage
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Series
Skye's West volume 10
Language
English
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On deserting from a Royal Navy ship, sailor Barnaby Skye becomes a fur trapper in America. He marries an Indian woman, but she leaves him to become the second wife of an Indian chief. When another tribe abducts her, Skye goes to her rescue.
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Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson. Even before she was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, Mary Rowlandson sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger,...
17) Echohawk
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Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998, c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old white boy, adopted and raised by Mohicans in the Hudson River Valley during the 1730's, is sent with his younger brother to an English settlement for schooling. A story that shows how the Mohicans' ancient ways mixed with those of the English colonists.
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Series
Prairie winds volume 1
Language
English
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Captured by the Lakota Sioux on a Nebraska prairie, Jesse King discovers God's tender mercies in her friendship with an Indian woman and in her love for the Sioux brave, Rides the Wind.
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Series
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English
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The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it has seemed - until killers ambush a detail of U.S. soldiers and an officer's wife. One man, an ambitious cavalry officer, flees the carnage and lives to tell the story - his own story, an outright lie. When Duff MacCallister and a few brave men go after the attackers, they discover the officer's wife is very much alive and at the cold merciless hands of the sadistic warrior Yellow Hawk....
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