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61) Indian no more
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.
62) Julie
Author
Series
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
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 192 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"An agent of chaos and deceit, the trickster has been a favorite character type in stories spanning thousands of years and multiple peoples. From legends belonging to Native Americans such as the Creek, Natchez, Seminole and Catawba, to tales borrowed from Africa and Europe, this work has compiled 73 trickster tales into one volume. Beginning with Creek tales, this work continues with a blend of Native American and African American folktales, organized...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds, even thousands, of years before Europeans arrived in North America, American Indians had made their homes here. These many groups adapted to the varied lands and climates of what would later become the United States. Each group developed its own culture and history. When settlers from Britain, France, Spain, and Russia arrived, the newcomers interacted with American Indians in different ways. Some engaged in trade, while others tried to...
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
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1974]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[42] p. col. illus. 25 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
70) The angry moon
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1970]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
[45] p. : col. illus. ; 24 x ru cm.
Language
English
Description
An Indian girl insults the moon and is held prisoner by him until her friend reaches the sky country to rescue her.
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.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Lakota Indian legend in which the White Buffalo Woman presents her people with the Sacred Calf Pipe which gives them the means to pray to the Great Spirit.
76) My powerful hair
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
79) American peoples
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
128 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him.