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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Omri's birthday present from his best friend, Patrick, isn't what he really wanted. He received other gifts that are much more exciting--a skateboard, a mysterious cupboard from his brother, and, from his mother, a very old key that fits the cupboard's lock. By the end of the day Omri has almost forgotten the three-inch-high Indian Patrick gave him.
But just before going to bed, Omri decides to put the Indian in the cupboard. He shuts the door, locks...
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this magical, modern twist on Peter Pan, stepsisters Lily and Wendy are spirited away to Neverland by a mysterious boy and must find a way back to the family they love.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Dear America series. In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
2nd Aladdin Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
52 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Sweetgrass
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
10) Julie
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
228 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Omri, his father, and other members of his family learn more about the cupboard in his room, together and separately they are caught up in several dangerous adventures that reveal more about its powers.
13) Trophy buck
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Excited to go on his first family hunting trip, twelve-year-old Rodney learns Cherokee traditions, gun safety, and patience.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the government removes their tribe from their sacred homeland in 1831, ten-year-old Minko and his father endure terrible hardships on their journey from Mississippi to Oklahoma where Minko receives the name Longwalker.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
183 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
203 p.: 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Far off the coast of California loos a harsh rock known as San Nicolas Island. Blue dolphins splash in the water surrounding it, sea otters play in the kelp beds, and seabirds roots in its crags. Once, Indians also lived on the island-until one day they decided to leave and sail east.
A young girl was left behind.
Karana is that girl. Year after year, she waits for the ship to come back. But it never does. Finally, she realizes she must make a fateful...
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
81 p.: col. ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies. Includes historical notes on Nez Perce children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company"--