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Author
Series
Island of the Blue Dolphins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Author
Series
Marrow thieves volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world.
3) Skysisters
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two Ojibway sisters set off across the frozen north country to the the SkySpirits' midnight dance, and after an exhilarating walk and patient waiting, the girls are rewarded by the arrival of the SkySpirits--the Northern Lights.
4) Elatsoe
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
8) Berry song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.
11) Stealing Indians
Author
Publisher
Leapfrog Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Four Indian teenagers are kidnapped from different regions, their lives changed by an institution designed to eradicate their identity, and without family to protect them, only their friendship helps them endure.
12) Dreamcatcher
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the land of the Ojibway a baby sleeps, protected from bad dreams, as the life of the tribe goes on around him.
13) Indian shoes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
14) The long run
Author
Series
Publisher
7th Generation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Travis decides to get away from his abusive, alcoholic father and go live with his grandparents in Maine, but to do that he has to go on a cross-country journey where he learns survival skills and valuable lessons about human nature.
15) Sparrow Hawk
Author
Publisher
Holy Cow! Press
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
A white boy and his Sauk Indian friend experience changes in their frontier lives during the 1830s when the Sauk Indians under Black Hawk try to hold their lands against encroaching whites.
18) Calico Captive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In Colonial America, the Johnson family are captured by Indians & forced on a long trek. In August 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian War, James Johnson, his wife Susanna, and their children were captured in an Indian raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire. Retelling of story as it might have happened.
20) My powerful hair
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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