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3) There there
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
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
Series
Language
English
Description
When her husband dies at the Little Big Horn, LisBeth Baird returns home in search of comfort. But her beloved mother has died, and LisBeth rejects the faith that sustained her mother. Will bitterness haunt the rest of her life? What will happen when LisBeth meets her half-brother and realizes the gold locket around Soaring Eagle's neck is the one her husband wore into battle?
Changes beyond his control threaten everything Soaring Eagle has ever...
Changes beyond his control threaten everything Soaring Eagle has ever...
Author
Language
English
Description
Outlaw Tig Hardy had a mile-wide mean streak and a vicious way of exacting vengeance. And after the accidental shooting of his brother, Tig had his sights set on ex-soldier Free Anderson. But Tig didn't go straight for Free. Oh no. He took Free's wife, Clara, instead. Free knows he's running straight into a trap, but he's willing to do whatever it takes to get Clara back. And he's not alone. With his longtime friend Parks Scott, Free embarks on a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jesse King doesn't want to go west, but her husband has never been all that concerned with what his wife wants.
When tragedy strikes, Jesse is rescued by the Lakota Sioux, among whom she finds unexpected peace, a sense of belonging, and the love of a lifetime.
A compelling tale of one woman's extraordinary faith as God leads her from prairie schooner to tepee, from tepee to frontier fort and on to a growing state capitol.
When tragedy strikes, Jesse is rescued by the Lakota Sioux, among whom she finds unexpected peace, a sense of belonging, and the love of a lifetime.
A compelling tale of one woman's extraordinary faith as God leads her from prairie schooner to tepee, from tepee to frontier fort and on to a growing state capitol.
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When his brother and his young bride disappear deep into Sioux territory, Monroe Pratt convinces the legendary Indian scout John Hawk, who is known for delivering swift justice to anyone who stands in his way, to come out of retirement and rescue them.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Down the eastern slopes of the Rockies, out upon the Great Plains, and into the heart of Blackfeet country flows the Two Medicine River. To this wild and beautiful land come a pair of young wanderers, half-breeds born of two worlds... but belonging to neither. Marie Therese de Paris - driven by the ancestral fires in her spirit - sets out on a vision quest, hoping to save the Blackfeet from their cruel fate. Peter Kipp, bold and ambitious, chooses...
11) Four souls
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.
After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her tribe's land. But revenge is...
12) The painted drum
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.
"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see-to the...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Luke Sunday is relieved of his position as an army scout after his opposition to the army's attack on a peaceful Cheyenne village. Desperate for work, he agrees to guide a couple to across hostile country to the Gallatin Valley"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Still half asleep, Michael looked up at his parents sitting on the buckboard of their covered wagon and saw an arrow penetrate his father's chest. Then he saw his mother being dragged from the wagon by two Indians. She was fighting them with all her might. He watched as one of the Indians hit her with his stone ax. His mother fell from the wagon and disappeared from his sight and from his life forever. Now he was alone. "Sagebrush" tells of how Michael...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young Sioux warrior earns the right to be called historian for his tribe after numerous adventures and trials which test his ability to tell the story of his people with truth and courage.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old boy received a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[c1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian...
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian...
Author
Language
English
Description
A religious miracle: the Cahokians believed that the divine hero Morning Star had been resurrected in the flesh. But not all is fine and stable in glorious Cahokia. To the astonishment of the ruling clan, an attempt is made on the living god's life. Now it is up to Morning Star's aunt, Matron Blue Heron, to keep it quiet until she can uncover the plot and bring the culprits to justice. If she fails, Cahokia will be torn asunder in warfare, rage, and...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1982.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A woman ahead of her time, Mary Breydon knew how to get things done. Raised on a Virginia plantation, she learned how to care for livestock, respect her workers, and keep good books. But after her husband is killed, Mary must provide for her young daughter by running a stage coach station on the Cherokee Trail. With the help of an Irish maid and a mysterious stranger, Mary faces challenges that even the men eagerly anticipating her failure would have...
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