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Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig-and a steel hypodermic needle. And the...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vi, 312 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When they rescue a kidnapped white woman who has been raised by the Crow since childhood, Preacher and his son, Hawk, must battle kill-crazy trappers and bloodthirsty Blackfeet warriors to return her to her people.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rose sets out to prove her brother's innocence when he is accused of shooting a politician during a Wild West show performance in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1886.
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2001, c1982
Edition
Rev. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
150 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Understanding and finally friendship develop between a twelve-year-old Hopi Indian boy and the fur trapper who bought him from Spanish soldiers in 1832.
6) There there
Author
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
Walt Longmire mystery volume 8
Language
English
Description
When the site of his daughter's upcoming wedding burns down, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire and his friend, Henry Standing Bear, witness the falling death of a young Crow woman and are recruited into an investigation that incites the wrath of the bride-to-be.
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First editon.
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heading into the wild West seems an adventure to fifteen-year-old Justin Bodean, until the bullet and arrows begin to fly. The lure of a treasure of Civil War gold drives him, but out where fortunes can be grabbed by the strongest and quickest, he has a lot to learn.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy's father celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world through his daily words of thanks and assures his son, who finds it a little embarrassing to thank trees and such, that it becomes a habit and makes one feel good.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
195 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joe and his longtime enemy, Bobby Fuller, use a vintage baseball card to travel in time, hoping to stop Jim Thorpe from participating in the 1912 Olympics and losing his medals, but instead they watch Thorpe struggle during his first season with the New York Giants.
Author
Series
Contact the battle for America volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Traces the first contact between Native Americans and Europeans in 1539 as viewed by Chickasaw trader Black Shell, who witnesses the brutal progress of Hernando de Soto's military.
Author
Language
English
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Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
Author
Series
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After two decades spent protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on a job that took a dangerous turn for the worse, Jane Whitefield has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New York or so she thinks.
14) Fire the sky
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Black Shell and Pearl Hand's continuing pursuit of Hernando de Soto's invading Spanish army is shaped by their assistance in an Apache guerilla war, a desperate race to warn the high rulers, and the vain ambition of a young princess.
Author
Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, bit also the negative connotation--a person...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
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...