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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and descriptive text provide information on the people, cities, culture, food and drink, trade, gods and goddesses, clothes, sports and games, and other aspects of the Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations.
Author
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book introduces readers to the first inhabitants of the Wild West. Readers will learn about Native American struggles over land and the historical and heartbreaking Trail of Tears. Through rich text and historic photographs, readers will learn about how life changed for Native Americans when white settlers started moving west. Engaging text explains important people and events, including the Great Sioux War of 1876 and Crazy Horse. "Truth or...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
In a ten-film collection, Dakota American Adventures covers a lot of ground in telling the saga of the Old West from exploration and settlement to gunfights and Indian wars. These are the deeds that changed the wild frontier forever.
11) Indians
Author
Series
Publisher
American Heritage
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Reprint of: The American Heritage book of Indians. 1961. Explores the history of the American Indians from their arrival via the Bering Strait to their expansion throughout the New World.
12) My brother
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult...
Author
Publisher
Friedman/Fairfax Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Trudy Griffin-Pierce, a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Arizona, dispels misconceptions of Native American Culture. With text that is engaging as it is informative, Dr Griffin-Pierce presents her readers with a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the complex cultures and traditions of American Indian groups across the continent.
16) The Inca
Author
Pub. Date
19uu
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides information about the Inca, a group of people who lived in the Andes Mountains of South America hundreds of years ago, discussing the Inca Empire, their skills as builders and farmers, the fall of the empire at the hands of the Spanish, and the Inca legacy.
19) The Inca empire
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Inca empire, including their traditional way of life, the reign of King Pachacuti, the last of the great kings, the Inca civil war and the end of the empire.
20) Far North
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada.