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101) The final freedom
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
When thirteen-year-old Will Burke and the famed Apache chief, Geronimo, forge a unique bond of friendship, each wins a special kind of freedom.
102) My Navajo sister
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
A white girl lives for a short time on an Indian reservation and forms a close bond with a Navajo girl.
103) Runaway mittens
Author
Pub. Date
c1988
Description
Pica's mittens are always turning up in strange places, but when he finds them keeping the newborn puppies warm in their box, he decides to leave them where they are until spring.
104) False face
Author
Pub. Date
1988, c1987
Description
Thirteen-year-old Laney, troubled by the animosity between her divorced parents, and fourteen-year-old Tom, determined to preserve his Indian identity, form an uneasy alliance after finding rare Indian false face masks and realizing their terrifying power.
105) Hoot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A grullo horse helps his boss, Sequoyah, find peace and quiet that he needs to develop the alphabet which will from the basis of the Cherokee people's first written language. Includes factual information about grullo horses.
106) After obsession
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When Alan, a half-Navajo in touch with the spiritual mysticism of his ancestors, meets Aimee, a gifted psychic in his new high school, they realize they've had precognitive dreams of each other and that they must confront an evil spirit that has been responsible for mysterious deaths in the river in their small Maine town for hundreds of years and which is now haunting Alan's cousin Courtney.
110) Firefly night
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young Chippewa girl follows a firefly as it reveals the secrets of the night, the many creatures that share her forest home, on her way to sleep. Inspired by Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha."
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
A heartwarming book from creators of Indigenous and Métis descent about the power of story and tradition to help navigate change. How does a strange new place become home? When Ojiig moves to the city with his family, he misses everything they left behind. Most of all, he misses the sparkling night sky. Without the stars watching over him, he feels lost. His parents try to help, but nothing seems to work. Not glow-in-the-dark sticker stars, not a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"An extraordinary book that celebrates skateboarding, family, and community. Every day, a little boy watches kids pass by on skateboards, and dreams of joining them. One day, his mother brings a surprise: her old skateboard, just for him! haw êkwa! Let's go! Together, they practice on the sidewalk, at the park, in Auntie's yard--everywhere. But when it comes time to try the skatepark, the skateboarders crash down like a waterfall. Can he find the...
118) Moon dancer
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Miranda, a nature loving, athletic fifteen-year-old, goes on a backpacking trip to look for Indian paintings in the canyons of southern Utah, where she feels a mystical connection to the women who were there before her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Formats
Description
"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly to life. The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans portrays the inevitable conflict of opposed cultures and stands as a testament to the ways in which this struggle has been mythologized. Featuring the well-loved noble woodsman Natty Bumppo, or "Hawk-eye," Cooper's novel is a memorable...