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Birchbark house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
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...
22) White Fang
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory, London's 1906 story chronicles the story of a half-dog, half-wolf beast in the wild. As opposed to his famous Call of the Wild tale of a domestic dog reverting to the wild, White Fang depicts a wild animal eventually becoming domesticated. It is a gripping tale told from the wolf's point of view about the hard life in the frozen wilds of the north. The story concludes with White Fang returning...
23) We still belong
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong-until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Lily and Wendy have been best friends since they became stepsisters. But with their feuding parents planning to spend the summer apart, what will become of their family—and their friendship? Little do they know that a mysterious boy has been watching them from the oak tree outside their window. A boy who intends to take them away from home for good, to an island of wild animals, Merfolk, Fairies, and kidnapped children, to a sea of merfolk, pirates,...
26) My powerful hair
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
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Series
Newbery Honor Book volume 1942
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters with whom she ultimately chooses to stay.
28) Saturnalia
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Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hiawatha, a Mohawk, is plotting revenge for the murder of his wife and daughters by the evil Onondaga Chief, Tadodaho, when he meets the Great Peacemaker, who enlists his help in bringing the nations together to share his vision of a new way of life marked by peace, love, and unity rather than war, hate, and fear. Includes historical notes.
32) Indian shoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
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Series
Legend series (Kathy-Jo Wargin) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
One winter, when the people of her village become terribly ill, Running Flower braves the snow and freezing cold to race to the village on the other side of the forest for medicine.
36) On Mother's lap
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A small Eskimo boy discovers that Mother's lap is a very special place with room for everyone, including his baby Sister and a puppy.
Author
Pub. Date
1941.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
39) Forever cousins
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.
40) Crow Mountain
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Emily Forsythe is a young British woman on her way to an arranged marriage in Portland, Oregon, in 1867 when a carriage accident in Montana leaves her alone and at the mercy of the man who finds her; Hope Cooper is a modern British girl on a camping trip with her mother in the mountains of Montana--yet their stories come together on Crow Mountain.