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Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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When his experimental aircraft is forced down over the Bering Sea by Russians, U.S. Air Force Major Joseph "Joe Mack" Makatozi must seek his safety in the uncharted wilds of Siberia, pursued by Colonel Zamatev of the GRU and by a Yakut tracker.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In an attack on an Indian village, a U.S. cavalryman takes a baby girl, but later gives her back. So begins a multi-generation saga on the girl's descendants as they navigate between modern life and ancient tradition. By the author of The Bingo Palace
""A new and radically revised version of the classic novel ... When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico and carries her far from her native Montana plains to his Minneapolis home, he cannot begin...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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It's Omri's birthday, but all he gets from his best friend, Patrick, is a little plastic Indian brave. Trying to hide his disappointment, Omri puts the Indian in a metal cupboard and locks the door with a mysterious skeleton key that once belonged to his great-grandmother. Little does Omri know that by turning the key, he will transform his ordinary plastic Indian into a real live man from an altogether different time and place! Omri and the tiny...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
“Stunning” short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce...
In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce...
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English
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Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless...
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In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. He begins dictating to his wife,...
Author
Publisher
Whispering Coyote
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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, in a story inspired by Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha."
10) Promise Canyon
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Series
Virgin River volume 13
Language
English
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Clay Tahoma settles in Virgin River to become a veterinary assistant and is welcomed by everyone in town except Lilly Yazhi, who thinks Clay is using his good looks and charm to try and control her, but the couple cannot deny their attraction to one another and Lilly wonders if Clay is really as devious as she thought.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho.
Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on...
12) Comanche heart
Author
Series
Comanche moon series volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub./Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2009, c1991
Language
English
Description
Amy Masters, who had escaped the Texas plains for a quiet life as a teacher in Oregon, has memories of Swift Antelope, the Comanche warrior to whom she once pledged her heart, but Amy's brutal past has made it impossible for her to trust any man--even the bold warrior who has haunted her dreams.
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English
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?00Unlike...
14) Cherished mercy
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English
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Mercy Flanagan survived the Whitman Massacre as a child, and now her heart's cry is for peace between the native peoples and the white settlers inhabiting Oregon Territory. Unfortunately, most of the settlers would rather the tribes were removed from the land completely, one way or the other, and tensions are rising. Mercy has grown tired of Oregon City and feels that she has a larger purpose in life, so when she learns that family friend Eletta Browning...
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Publisher
Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Louis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Based on the author's great-grandfather; includes author's note.
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