Diane Wilson
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhóta family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.
Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has...
Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has...
2) Raven speak
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 854, the bold fourteen-year-old daughter of a Viking chieftain, aided by her old and thin but equally intrepid horse and an ancient, one-eyed seer, must find a way to keep her clan together and save them from starvation.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
A Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and author of An Unreasonable Woman describes growing up in rural Texas in a family of Holy Rollers, detailing a childhood of tent revivals, snake handling, and evangelism and reflecting on its influence on her adult life, activism, and dedication to social justice.
Author
Publisher
Borealis Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the 1950s in suburban Minneapolis, Diane Wilson had a family like everybody else's. Her Swedish American father was a salesman at Sears and her mother drove her brothers to baseball practice and went to parent-teacher conferences. But in her thirties, Diane began to wonder why her mother didn't speak of her past. So she traveled to South Dakota and Nebraska, searching out records of her relatives through six generations, hungering to...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2010, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In early fourteenth-century China, Oyuna tells her granddaughter of her girlhood in Mongolia and how love for her horse enabled her to win an important race and bring good luck to her family.