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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A highly-acclaimed anthology about growing up NativeÑnow in paperback.
*Best Books of 2014, American Indians in ChildrenÕs Literature
*Best Book of 2014, Center for the Study of Multicultural Literature
*2015 USBBY Outstanding International Book Honor List
A collection truly universal in its themes, Dreaming in Indian will shatter commonly held stereotypes about Native peoples and offers readers a unique insight into a community often misunderstood...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name.
Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white kids being nice to him -- kids like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town...
4) The Aztec
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Explore the history and culture of the Aztec people. The Aztec ruled a mighty empire in Mexico during the 1400's and early 1500's.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.
Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake.
Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
6) Night wings
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being taken captive by a band of treasure seekers, thirteen-year-old Paul and his Abenaki grandfather must face a legendary Native American monster at the top of Mount Washington.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today.
How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Muckrakers discusses how in the early 1900s, Ida Tarbell and other investigative journalists brought about change by exposing the illegal tactics and unethical practices of corporations. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families.
10) Traitor's son
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Series
Raven duet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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In Alaska in the middle of the twenty-first century, Jase is drafted by a Native American trickster spirit to help stop a bio-plague caused by disruptions in the earth's flow of magic, and finds himself in the middle of a shapeshifter war.
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