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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series.
In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and life on the Rez. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massively multiplayer...
In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and life on the Rez. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massively multiplayer...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population--and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow--and dreams--means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
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Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Helen Ketterling returns to the Bad River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota where she worked thirteen years earlier as a teacher, this time to investigate reports of wrongdoing at the local casino, and encounters Reese Blue Sky, the man she once loved and the father of her son.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this novella-length fable, Barry Lopez returns to his abiding concerns -- our spiritual relationship to the landscape, respect for traditions different from our own, and our human obligations to one another.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations depict the varied seasonal full moons that change and assume personalities of their own throughout the year.
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Sugar island volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe...
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Time Circle quartet volume 1
Publisher
Arbor House/Morrow
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
xv, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
She stood apart for her unusual blue eyes. But to the clan who took her in-and the man who saved her-she was born for a special destiny.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
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Jane Whitefield volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who helps people hide from their enemies. John Felker asks her for sanctuary and then draws her into an adventure of love and betrayal.
14) The spirit woman
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English
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When a college professor who is researching the life of Sacajawea disappears, Vicky Holden begins to investigate, and she soon learns that there is someone on the reservation who will go to any lengths to keep the truth about Sacajawea's life hidden.
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he's sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple's search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with...
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English
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On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 11
Language
English
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Private investigator Kate Shugak returns to her hometown to protect a Native American woman who is running for state senate, but when the staff researcher is killed, Kate must find out who wants the campaign to end before all their lives are put in danger.
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English
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"Founded in 1866, the Frontier Overland Company was no ordinary stagecoach operation. Two kindred souls with the same fighting spirit, Tucker Cobb and former Texas Ranger Butch Keeling agreed to launch a business together: a brand-new stagecoach line through the wilds of Wyoming . . . They called it the Frontier Overland Company. And a legend was born. Cobb and Keeling knew it wouldn't be easy. The nation was still healing from the War Between the...
20) Tracks: a novel
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Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2001, 2004, 2017.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people erode ceaselessly, men and women are pushed to the brink of their endurance--yet their pride and humor prohibit surrender. The reader will experience shock and pleasure in encountering a group of characters...
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