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Newbery Honor Book volume 1942
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
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English
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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...
4) Galloway
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Galloway and Flagan Sackett decide to settle down and take up ranching, but the territory they are interested in has already been claimed by the tough and ruthless Dunn family. Many dead Dunns later, the Sacketts are able to put up their guns and concentrate on their new ranch.
5) The return
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
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As the Amish settle in America, Tessa wishes Hans would notice her. When tragedy strikes--close to home and close to her heart--she discovers the cost of true love.
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Publisher
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The story of a young college man, James Raymond, who is framed for murder by his uncle, aunt and her brother. James heads west to elude lawmen and it is here he sees the inaccessible Table Mountain and is enamored with its beauty and security. After he finds a way to the top of the mountain and discovers a paradise, he rescues a young woman from Indians and shares this new-found "Garden of Eden" with her in a clandestine relationship.
7) Lone Wolf
Author
Series
Reno western saga volume 6
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Author
Series
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.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Once it was one of the most infamous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704. This impregnable barricade--known to early Americans as 'The Old Indian...
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English
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A historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians. Attracted by the natural simplicity of their lifestyle, John W. Dunbar chooses to leave his former life behind to join them, taking on the name Dances with Wolves. Soon, Dances with Wolves has become a welcome member of the tribe and fallen in love with a white woman who has been raised amongst the tribe. His peaceful existence is threatened, however,...
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English
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
14) Changing trains
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English
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Lady gambler Mari Marshay decides to give it all up after a gunfight at her poker table kills a man. Leaving a note for the sheriff to locate the man's widow and return the deed to his ranch, which was among her winnings, she boards a train called The Prairie Queen. Soon, Sheriff Quin Milam is hot in pursuit of Mari, but not for the reason one might think. It turns out that the dead poker player has left a four-year-old orphan behind and the sheriff...
15) White warrior
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A nine-year-old boy is taken in a raid on a wagon train and adopted by an Arapaho to replace his own son who had died. Raised by Red Stone and Beaver Woman, he learns to see the good and the bad in both Indians and whites and struggles to find where he belongs"--Provided by publisher.
16) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
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English
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Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
17) Follow the river
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
After being captured in an Indian raid during 1755, Mary Draper Ingles follows the Ohio River for 1,000 miles to return home to Virginia by herself.
19) To hell and gone
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Series
Hunters volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Orphaned in a massacre. Raised by Crow Indians. Destined to become a powerful hunter, a legendary scout, and a true American hero . . . As a widower with three young boys, Duncan Hunter dreamed of a new life for his sons in the heart of Washington Territory. But the journey was doomed from the start. Before reaching Hell Gate, their wagon train was attacked by Blackfoot Indians. Most of the pioneers were viciously murdered. But Hunter's son Cody...
20) Beauty for ashes
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English
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Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s. This time out, however, he is searching for his lost love--the Indian maiden Meadowlark.
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