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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Detailed essays, extensive photos, and informative sidebars describe life in ancient Aztec civilization, showing the results of significant archaeological digs; also includes a time line and a bibliography.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the lives and accomplishments of outstanding Native Americans from the eighteenth century to the present, including Wilma Mankiller, Billy Mills, Sacagawea, Louis Ballard, and Will Rogers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the daily lives, culture, beliefs, social structure, and environment of some of the Native American peoples who lived in the Great Plains region of North America before their contact with European settlers.
17) Hearts unbroken
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
18) The bingo palace
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
19) Flight: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of multiple award-winning books comes this powerful, fast, and timely story of a troubled foster teenager—a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father—who learns the true meaning of terror.
About to commit a devastating act, young "Zits" finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He
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