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1) Chickadee
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In 1877, trouble begins to brew in the Northwest between the Nez Perce and the American government, which is forcing the Native American tribes from their homelands onto a reservation.
3) Makoons
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Continues the story that began with The Birchbark House, one Ojibwe family's journey through a hundred years of American history.
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 12
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Seamus Donegan is not under the command of Col. Nelson A. Miles, who must lead his war-weary troops up the Tongue River into butte country. There, amidst the snow-covered bluffs, awaits Crazy Horse with a thousand-strong force of Lakota braves. They are ready to engage Col. Miles and the Fifth U.S. Infantry, in the last battle Crazy Horse will ever fight against the white man's army.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present.
Author
Publisher
Otis Audio
Pub. Date
p2005, c1997
Language
English
Description
For Semus Donegan, with a wife and infant son back in Fort Laramie, the campaign following the Army's defeat at the Little Big Horn is a frozen trek through an unforgiving land to face a battle to capture or kill the Lakota Chief Crazy Horse and his one thousand braves.
Author
Publisher
Otis Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
Seamus Donegan has much to be thankful for and has begun to enjoy life with his new family. For the first time in quite a spell, it seems as if he can finally settle down. But General Sheridan has other plans. Humiliated from the defeat at Little Big Horn, the U.S. Army has its eye on revenge. Gathering the best men at Fort Laramie, Sheridan has planned a winter campaign to bring in the fearless Sioux warrior Crazy Horse. Marching north through the...
Language
English
Description
Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice, one that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.
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