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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a...
3) Eagle Song
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A young indian boy must face growing up in a tribe with the different ways of living
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Saloon proprietor Vin Lockhart is known throughout Denver as a respectable businessman. He also has a reputation for quickness on the draw--a skill sure to come in handy when his old Oglala friends solicit his aid. It seems treacherous whites are once again intent on pushing the Oglaglas from their already diminished lands. A man of honor through and through, Vin commits himself to their fight. But in these rough and tumble times, even the best gunslinger...
10) The Big Wander
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
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Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are...
14) Thunder Boy Jr
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name ... one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
16) Cherokee
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G. Stevens Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the history, art, language, culture, and future prospects of the Cherokee Indians, as well as distinguished members of the tribe.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
19) Spanish missions
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Rourke Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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This book describes Spanish missions, the fighting between Native Americans and the Spanish, and El Camino Real, a trail linking the California missions.
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