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(0)Joseph Bruchac
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
2) Rez dogs
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation. She's there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There's a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay with her grandparents for the duration. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but Malian knows how to keep her family...
3) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle, " Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Young prince Rashko, aided by wise old Georgi, must channel the power of his ancestor Pavol the great, and harness a magical dragon to face the evil Baron Temny after the foolish King and Queen go missing.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bear and Brown Squirrel have a disagreement about whether Bear can stop the sun from rising, Brown Squirrel ends up with claw marks on his back and becomes Chipmunk, the striped one.
Author
Publisher
Wisdom Tales
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Bruchac retells this traditional story of love, loyalty, trust, and magic, which can be found in various forms among many of the indigenous nations of the northeast, both Iroquoian and Algonquin. Join him and ... illustrator Bill Farnsworth, as they recount this ancient and unique Abenaki tale of keeping a promise to one's family and of the proper relationship of humans to the natural world"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII"--
11) Peacemaker
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ely S. Parker (1828-1895) is one of the most unique, but little-known figures in US history. A member of the Seneca, an Iroquois nation, Parker was an attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. Raised on a reservation but schooled at a Catholic institution, he learned English at a young age and became an interpreter for his people. During the American Civil War, he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel and was the primary draftsman of the terms...
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.