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22) Hooked
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Invited to become her varsity golf team's only female member, Fredericka Oday pursues a dream of earning a scholarship only to be challenged by golden boy Ryan Berenger, who resents Fred for replacing his best friend on the team.
23) When we are kind
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
This book explores how the simple act of being kind, to others and oneself, affects all aspects of a child's life.
25) My powerful hair
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
26) Elatsoe
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Imagine an America very similar to our own. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples. Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry"--
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Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help. Sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard."
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 8
Language
English
Description
Joe and his longtime enemy, Bobby Fuller, use a vintage baseball card to travel in time, hoping to stop Jim Thorpe from participating in the 1912 Olympics and losing his medals, but instead they watch Thorpe struggle during his first season with the New York Giants.
29) Small Wolf
Author
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with white faces and very different ideas about land.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Hiawatha, a Mohawk, is plotting revenge for the murder of his wife and daughters by the evil Onondaga Chief, Tadodaho, when he meets the Great Peacemaker, who enlists his help in bringing the nations together to share his vision of a new way of life marked by peace, love, and unity rather than war, hate, and fear. Includes historical notes.
31) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
32) Zia
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana, whose story was told in "The Island of the Blue Dolphins."
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
For thousands of years, quartz fragments have traveled down the Delaware River (once called the Wehittck by the Lenape Indians), washing ashore near a place settled by the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobson Mey, where they are gathered as treasures and known as Cape May Diamonds.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Language
English
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Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...
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