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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
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.
3) The son
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Language
English
Description
Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the newly established Republic of Texas, Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches storms his homestead and brutally murders his mother and sister, taking him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and language, answering to a new name, becoming the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white...
Author
Series
Heirs of Montana volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Description
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
Author
Series
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.
8) 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.
9) The White
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
An 'intimate re-imagining' of Mary Jemison's life story who was captured by the Shawnees in 1758 when she was sixteen near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and lived happily within her adopted culture.
16) Lone Wolf
Author
Series
Reno western saga volume 6
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Author
Series
Texas Rangers volume 2 & 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
19) Blood rage
Author
Publisher
Leisure Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
When Comanches kidnap Alec Dragoman's daughter, Mike Rhiannon wonders if Dragoman will keep his end of the bargain when Mike, wise to Indians' ways, rescues her.
20) Missing
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his lifelong search for inner peace.