Joseph Bruchac
1) Two Roads
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A boy discovers his Native American heritage in this Depression-era tale of identity and friendship by the author of Code Talker It's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his Pop have been riding the rails for years after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, DC--some of his fellow veterans are marching for their government checks,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Months after she has been healed from the Enemy Sickness that afflicted her in Trail of the Dead, Lozen and her family have gathered a community around them in Valley Where First Light Paints the Cliffs and have begun to rebuild.
Lozen knows danger still stalks them, as the remaining Ones plot Lozen’s demise and she senses an old enemy inching closer. She intends to be ready to defend her people, but can she do it without taking another human...
Lozen knows danger still stalks them, as the remaining Ones plot Lozen’s demise and she senses an old enemy inching closer. She intends to be ready to defend her people, but can she do it without taking another human...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This spine-tingling middle grade collection brings together Skeleton Man and The Return of Skeleton Man—two modern classics that will chill you to the bone. R.L. Stine, bestselling author of the Goosebumps series, raved: “This book gave me nightmares!”
Molly’s father grew up on the Mohawk Reserve of Akwesasne, where he learned the best scary stories. One of her favorites was the
...Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to the award-winning Killer of Enemies, seventeen-year-old Apache hunter Lozen and her allies travel in search of a valley where she and her family once found refuge. But life is never easy in this post-apocalyptic world. When they finally reach the valley, a terrible surprise awaits them—and a
merciless hunter follows close behind.
Hally, their enigmatic Bigfoot friend, points them to another destination—a possible refuge....
merciless hunter follows close behind.
Hally, their enigmatic Bigfoot friend, points them to another destination—a possible refuge....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On November 20, 1969, a group of 89 Native Americans-most of them young activists in their twenties, led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others-crossed San Francisco Bay under the cover of darkness. They called themselves the "Indians of All Tribes." Their objective was to occupy the abandoned prison on Alcatraz Island ("The Rock"), a mile and a half across the treacherous waters. Under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. and the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bear and Brown Squirrel have a disagreement about whether Bear can stop the sun from rising, Brown Squirrel ends up with claw marks on his back and becomes Chipmunk, the striped one.
13) Pocahontas
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
16) Eagle song
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage.
17) Hidden roots
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Although he is uncertain why his father is so angry and what secret his mother is keeping from him, eleven-year-old Sonny knows that he is different from his classmates in their small New York town.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An ancient and terrifying Narragansett native-American legend begins to come true for a teenage long-distance runner, whose recovery from the accident that killed her parents has stunned everyone, including her guardian aunt in Providence, Rhode Island.
19) Rez dogs
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
20) Talking leaves
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--