Joseph Bruchac
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
150 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister must make peace with a hostile gang of older boys in their Mohawk village during the late 1400s.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Beaver challenges Turtle to a swimming race for ownership of the pond, Turtle outsmarts Beaver, and Beaver learns to share.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Molly relies on her dreams about an old Mohawk story to stay safe when she is placed in the care of a strange "great uncle" and, a year later, at a conference at Mohonk Mountain House, Molly begins to fear that she is being watched by the very man who threatened her family.
45) Talking leaves
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
46 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
198 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After falling in love with an Abenaki Indian woman, a white great horned owl named Wabi transforms into a human being and has several trials and adventures while learning to adapt to his new life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
203 p. : ill., col. map ; 20 cm.
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.
52) Peacemaker
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
160 pages
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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"--
53) Buffalo song
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the first efforts to save the vanishing bison (buffalo) herds from extinction in the United States in the 1870s and 1880s. Based on the true story of Samuel Walking Coyote, a Salish (Kalispel) Indian who rescued and raised orphaned buffalo calves"--Provided by publisher.
55) The powwow thief
Author
Series
Powwow mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twins Jamie and Marie Longbow are excited about summer with their grandparents, traveling from powwow to powwow selling goods they helped to make. When their grandmother's most beautifulnecklace goes missing, it's up to the twins to solve the mystery"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
153 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old Penacook Indian boy living on a reservation faces his father's alcoholism, a controversy surrounding plans for a casino on a tribal island, and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his school and nearby town.
57) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Harper Trophy edition ; [Comport illustrated edition].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
114 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist"--