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(0)Joseph Bruchac
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Killer of enemies volume 1
Language
English
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American Indian Youth Literature Award - American Indian Library Association
A post-Apocalyptic YA novel with a steampunk twist, based on an Apache legend.
Years ago, seventeen-year-old Apache hunter Lozen and her family lived in a world of haves and have-nots. There were the Ones-people so augmented with technology and genetic enhancements that they were barely human-and there was everyone else who served them.
Then the
...2) Rose Eagle
Author
Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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A novella prequel to Joseph Bruchac's Killer of Enemies, in which Rose Eagle experiences the immediate results of the apocalypse that sets everything in motion.
In the Black Hills of South Dakota, seventeen-year-old Rose Eagle of the Lakota tribe is trying to find her place in a post-apocalyptic world.
Before the Silver Cloud, the Lakota were forced to work in the Deeps, mining for ore so that the Ones, the overlords,
...3) Wabi
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Language
English
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Wabi was born an owl—a great horned owl who grew to become such a strong, confident creature that he was afraid of nothing. But now he is afraid. He fears that he might never win the heart of the girl he loves. Somehow, despite his own intentions, he has fallen in love with a girl—a beautiful, headstrong human girl. And so he begins the adventure of his life. He shape-shifts into human form in order to be with her. But before he...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Joseph Bruchac, author of the award-winning Skeleton Man and The Return of Skeleton Man, breathes life into a chilling vampire-like demon.
Maddy has always loved scary stories, especially the spooky legends of her Native American ancestors. But that was before she heard about the Whisperer in the Dark, the most frightening legend of all.
Now there's an icy voice at the other end of the phone and a terrifying message
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English
Description
A captivating and historical story of two young men on opposing sides of war. In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the southern plains to reservations. Brothers of the Buffalo follows Private Washington Vance Jr., an African-American calvaryman, and Wolf, a Cheyenne warrior, during the brief and brutal war that followed. Filled with action and suspense from both sides of the battle, this is a tale of conflict...
7) Found
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Language
English
Description
A teenage survival expert finds all his skills tested as he's pursued through the Canadian wilderness by men determined to silence him. On his way to teach at Camp Seven Generations, a Native outdoor school, Nick witnesses a murder and then is thrown off a train. Remembering and using the teachings of his Abenaki elders will prove to be the difference between life and death for him. Although his pursuers have modern technology to help them, Nick has...
8) The Way
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Language
English
Description
Cody LeBeau is an American Indian boy starting high school with the usual trepidation. His Uncle Pat, an accomplished martial arts sensei, shows Cody "the way" through the maze of adolescent doubt and into manhood.
9) The Warriors
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Language
English
Description
Jake's new lacrosse team believes that winning is everything, and they don't know anything about the ways of Jake's people on the Iroquois reservation. When tragedy strikes, can Jake find courage to face the warrior within?
10) Dawn Land
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Language
English
Description
About ten thousand years ago in the northeast, the Abenaki– People of the Dawn Land – created a thriving community in social and ecological balance with nature and with each other. One of the finest sons of the People is Young Hunter, who dedicates himself to becoming a pure hunter. But a shadow is crossing over this place, threatening his beloved homeland, and Young Hunter is called to its defense. The deep-seeing...
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English
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Critically acclaimed author Joseph Bruchac's exciting JOURNAL OF JESSE SMOKE is now in paperback with a dynamic repackaging!
In 1838 in Tennessee, the Cherokee Nation is on the brink of being changed forever as they face the Removal -- being forcibly moved from their homes and land, in part because of a treaty signed by a group of their own people. Sixteen-year-old Jesse Smoke has been studying at the Mission School, but it has been shut down and...
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English
Description
"Promise to remember me" was the only thing that the mysterious and beautiful woman had ever said to him. She had appeared from nowhere one day, when the hunter had been alone during the long winter months. Just as suddenly she has disappeared again, but the hunter was sure we would keep his promise and see her once again. Join world-renowned storyteller Joseph Bruchac and award-winning illustrator Bill Farnsworth, as they recount this ancient and...
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 2
Language
English
Description
It's not over, that voice says. Some dreams, rabbit, are like this one I just sent you. They are messages and warnings. And even though it sends a shiver down my spine, I understand what this message, this warning, means. Skeleton Man will return. Molly thought she'd put her traumatic past behind her when she escaped from Skeleton Man last year. She rescued her parents and tried to get her life back to the way it used to be. She thought her family...
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English
Description
The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy-so much so that the United States Constitution is, said to have been, modeled on some of its tenets. But how, perhaps a thousand years before the time of Columbus, did the Five Iroquois Nations (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) come to end the bitter eye-for-eye warfare among them? What brought them together in an alliance based on the Great Law of Peace? And how, was...
18) Sports Shorts
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Language
English
Description
In this anthology of short, autobiographical stories, kids' book authors tell tales of their own real-life athletic incidents. Kids will relate to the struggling non-jocks as well as the athletes who take the trophy home.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League Baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track and field. He’ll forever be remembered by the sports community and by his Native American community, who consider him a hero on par with Crazy Horse.
Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in 1887. Jim was sent as a young boy to various Indian boarding schools strict, cold places that didn’t...
Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in 1887. Jim was sent as a young boy to various Indian boarding schools strict, cold places that didn’t...
20) Choke
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Language
English
Description
It takes a big risk in the mixed martial arts arena for 98-pound weakling Johnny to find that real power comes from within.