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Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
In the 12th Century, a Welsh prince and his band of men sail to America where they intermarry with Indian women to form a colony. The novel chronicles the colony's rise and fall, including the fate of its descendants, an Indian tribe near the Ohio River whose members have flaxen hair and grey-blue eyes. A story based on a Welsh legend. By the author of Follow the River.
6) Callaghen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Callaghen's business is soldiering. For twenty years he'd fought all over the world, from China to the deserts of California; now he's a private in the U.S. Calvary, poorly paid, his enlistment about to run out. He's ready to move on...until he comes across a startling discovery: a treasure map belonging to a dead lieutenant who may not have been all that he seemed. The map points the way to an underground river of gold...or does it? To find out,...
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls.
Author
Series
People of the Longhouse series volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this final installment of the Iroquois quartet, the darkness that Dekanawida has envisioned is drawing closer, and the warring Iroquois nations have refused to listen to his message of peace and compassion. Consumed by madness, Chief Atotarho is determined to subjugate all five nations beginning with Dekanawida's own people, the Standing Stone nation. All who stand in his way will be destroyed.
9) Spirit moon
Author
Series
First Americans (William Sarabande) volume 11
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly to life. The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans portrays the inevitable conflict of opposed cultures and stands as a testament to the ways in which this struggle has been mythologized. Featuring the well-loved noble woodsman Natty Bumppo, or "Hawk-eye," Cooper's novel is a memorable...
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English
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"Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new emancipation bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a termination...
13) The King's fifth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In this deeply affecting novel Scott O'Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors - a world that is at once somber and many-colored. Though they may have been ruthless, these steel-helmeted young men of Spain lived their lives on the very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage.
14) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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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...
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English
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As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is destroyed, the settlers know they will have to hunt him down.
Author
Series
Spanish bit saga volume 25
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Language
English
Description
Young holy man Pipe Bearer and his wife Otter Woman embark on a vision quest across the northern plains in search of the meaning of the sacred markings on a foal born to his mare, and are helped along their journey by Arapaho trader Lone Walker and his Lakota wife, Plum Blossom.