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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man...
22) The Deerslayer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.2 - AR Pts: 44
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Natty Bumppo, a young white hunter brought up in the Delaware Indian tribe, has to defend settlers before returning to the Iroquois who have allowed him parole.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
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"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...
27) Coyote waits
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Investigating the murder of a Navajo Tribal Policeman, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Sgt. Jim Chee unravel a complex plot of death involving a historical find, a lost fortune, and the mythical coyote, who is always waiting and always hungry.
28) The son: a novel
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Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the newly established Republic of Texas, Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches storms his homestead and brutally murders his mother and sister, taking him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and language, answering to a new name, becoming the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white...
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Virgin River volume 13
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After years spent on ranches around Los Angeles, Clay Tahoma is delighted to be Virgin River's new veterinary assistant and the secluded community's wild beauty tugs at his Navajo roots. Lilly has encountered her share of strong, silent, traditional men within her own aboriginal community, and she's not interested in coming back for more. In her eyes, Clay's earthy, sexy appeal is just an act used to charm wealthy women like his ex-wife. She can't...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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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.
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Birchbark house volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
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This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white...
34) Invincible
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Mercenary by name and by nature, Carson is a Lakota Sioux who stays to himself and never keeps women around long enough for anything emotional to develop. But working with his friend Cash Crier on a complex murder investigation provides Carson with another kind of fun: shocking Cash's sweet but traditional secretary, Carlie Blair, with tales of his latest conquests.
36) Jubal Sackett
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The Sacketts volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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Restless explorer Jubal Sackett journeys westward into the vast, unmapped wilderness of seventeenth-century America and discovers the perils of the rugged frontier, a new way of life among the Indians, and the love of a beautiful Natchez Indian princess.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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"Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
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Sheriff Frank Ulring isn't above getting rid of people in order to get what he wants--and right now he wants Bethany McAllister. The only thing in his way is her husband. So, he kills him. But Ulring hasn't planned on the half-breed Navajo, Will-Joe, seeing him do it. Now, before he could have Bethany, Ulring has to track down Will-Joe and tie-up that loose end for good.
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"Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are...