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Born in a time of violent upheaval, young Odion and his little sister, Tutelo, live in fear that one day Yellowtail Village will be attacked. When that day comes, and Odion and Tutelo are marched away as slaves, Odion's only hope is that his parents are coming to rescue them. They are. But War Chief Koracoo and Deputy Gonda think they are tracking an ordinary war party herding captive women and children to an enemy village. Instead, they are following...
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The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 1
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1980
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
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Virgin River volume 13
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English
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Clay Tahoma, Virgin River's new veterinary assistant, is welcomed by everyone in town except Lilly Yazhi, who believes that his down-to-earth attitude and rugged sex appeal is an act to charm wealthy women like his ex-wife.
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Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group
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2023.
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English
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Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Recorded history and folklore. Lifesaving disinfectant. Forest-fire management. Our lives would be unrecognizable without these and countless other scientific discoveries and technological inventions from Indigenous North Americans. From transportation to civil engineering, hunting technologies to astronomy, and architecture to agriculture, Indigenous Ingenuity is an unforgettable introduction to STEM...
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The Indigenous peoples of North America have long relationships with the native plants in their regions, and have developed a deep knowledge of plant lifecycles and uses. In Held by the Land, a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to Indigenous plant knowledge, ethnobotanist and member of the Squamish Nation Leigh Joseph shares how these living traditions can have a positive impact on your life. Readers will discover how to build a relationship...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
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First North Americans volume 1
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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A new edition of the best-selling field guide with 25 all-new plates covering the birds of Hawaii.
For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and unparalleled illustrations. Now that the American Birding Association has expanded its species Checklist to include Hawaii, the Peterson Guide is the first edition to include the wonderful and...
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"Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux fearlessly drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines."--Provided by publisher.
18) Soaring Eagle
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"When her husband dies at the Little Big Horn, LisBeth Baird returns home in search of comfort. But her beloved mother has died, and LisBeth rejects the faith that sustained Jesse King. Will bitterness haunt the rest of LisBeth's life? What will happen when she meets her half-brother and realizes the gold locket around Soaring Eagle's neck is the one her husband wore into battle? Changes beyond his control threaten everything Soaring Eagle has...
20) Thunder Boy Jr
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name ... one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
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