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Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help. Sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard."
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
6) Beardream
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Short Tail climbs the mountain to find the Great Bear, he tires, falls asleep, and slips into a dream in which the Great One reveals a marvelous secret.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
8) Dream wolf
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When two Plains Indian children become lost, they are cared for and guided safely home by a friendly wolf.
10) Small Wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with white faces and very different ideas about land.
12) Moccasin trail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
14) 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.
15) Buffalo woman
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1995], c1977
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account, as seen through the eyes of a woman known as Whirlwind, of life with the Oglala Sioux from 1820 through the aftermath of the victory at the Little Bighorn in 1877.
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...
18) Morning Girl
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
19) Rain player
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To bring rain to his thirsty village, Pik challenges the rain god to a game of pok-a-tok.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1986], c1963
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young Sioux warrior earns the right to be called historian for his tribe after numerous adventures and trials which test his ability to tell the story of his people with truth and courage.