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1) Yellow Line
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Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Vince lives in a small town—a town that is divided right down the middle. Indians on one side, whites on the other. The unspoken has never been challenged. But when Vince’s friend Sherry starts seeing an Indian boy, Vince is outraged and determined to fight back—until he notices Raedawn, a girl from the reserve. Vince is forced to take a stand and see where his heart will lead him.
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English
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Lily and Wendy have been best friends since they became stepsisters. But with their feuding parents planning to spend the summer apart, what will become of their family-and their friendship? Little do they know that a mysterious boy has been watching them from the oak tree outside their window. A boy who intends to take them away from home for good, to an island of wild animals, Merfolk, Fairies, and kidnapped children, to a sea of merfolk, pirates,...
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Language
English
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All Ages Native American Heritage
Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Native American Heritage - Juvenile & Middle Grade
Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Native American Heritage - Juvenile & Middle Grade
Description
A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: we are still here.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Benjamin Waterfalls comes from a broken home, and the quickest fix he's found for his life is to fill that emptiness with stuff he steals and then sells. But he's been caught one too many times, and when he appears before a tough judge, his mother proposes sending him to “boot camp” at the Ojibwe reservation where they used to live. Soon he is on his way to Grand Portage, Minnesota, to live with his father - the man Benny...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
-- Island of the Blue DolphinsSmithsonian magazine put it: "For kids all over the country, reading the book in language arts classes, Karana is a powerful symbol of their growing independence. Through her, they can imagine themselves making their way in the world alone—and thriving."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery: Suzette Choudoir always looks forward to summer, when her family leaves the Ojibwe people’s winter camp and returns to the summer gathering place on La Pointe Island. This year her papa, a French fur trader, hopes to win a trappers’ competition. If he does, he can remain with his family year-round, instead of paddling away to far-off Montreal in autumn. When someone steals a bale of...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Adult Book Club Master List
All Ages Native American Heritage
Historical Fiction - MID
Native American Heritage - Juvenile & Middle Grade
All Ages Native American Heritage
Historical Fiction - MID
Native American Heritage - Juvenile & Middle Grade
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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. Includes historical note and glossary.
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Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 3
Language
English
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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.
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English
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Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the 14th century. This message not only succeeded in uniting...
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