Diane Wilson
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Appears on list
Description
"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
2) Firehorse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
5) Raven speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Asa is the daughter of a Viking chief whose clan is struggling to survive a never-ending winter. All the able-bodied men head to sea in search of food, leaving behind the children, the elderly, the sick -- and Jorgen the skald, the wise man who will stop at nothing to take over the clan. When Asa learns the skald wants to kill and eat her beloved horse, she runs away -- but soon realizes she has to return and try to save her mother and clan. And...
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Far greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, Dakota people are still struggling with the effects of this unimaginable loss." Among the Dakota, the Beloved Child ceremony marked the special, tender affection that parents felt toward a...
9) Tracks
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
An Irish boy and a Chinese boy become friends, despite their mistrust and prejudices, while working on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1866.
10) Firehorse
Author
Pub. Date
19uu
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.