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Magic tree house. Original series volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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#18 The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains, where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Pa Ingalls decides to sell the old house, and the family sets out for Indian Country! They travel from Wisconson to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.
4) Mr. Tucket
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Tucket adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
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Pub. Date
1996
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In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by a legendary prophet promising victory in a war that will forever rid the plains of the white man. To legendary mountain man Preacher, it isn't a promise - it's a threat. But being out-numbered in a savage frontier means justice will be as hard-earned and uncertain.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A poignant look at the pain inflicted upon one child by a dominant culture's heavy-handed attempt to "help." Near the turn of the century, a Cheyenne boy, Young Bull, is forced to attend the off-reservation Indian school so that he can learn to become a part of the white world.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
This beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family begins in 1871 in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, but it is also exciting as they make their own homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and visit town. And every night Laura and her family are...
9) Makoons
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Birchbark house volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
10) Soaring Eagle
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Santa Fe Trail trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Julio, a thirteen-year-old boy in 1845, finds friendship and a clue to his identity while living with the Cheyenne tribe that rescued him on the Santa Fe Trail.
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On his first trip west Zane Grey met Buffalo Jones, who had not only been witness to the great herds of buffalo that once roamed the Great Plains, but had participated in their destruction. In 1923, Grey decided to write the epic story of those thundering herds, the great hunt that decimated them, and the battle between the Plains Indians and the buffalo hunters. At last that magnificent panorama is being published just as he wrote it--violent and...
12) Beyond the ridge
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
At her death an elderly Plains Indian woman experiences the afterlife believed in by her people, while the surviving family members prepare her body according to their customs.
13) Buffalo medicine
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Spanish bit saga volume 4
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The younger son of a legendary chief must make his own contribution to the People by learning the way of the buffalo from an ancient medicine man.
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Spanish bit saga volume 3
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A Spanish father searches for his long-lost son north of the Mexican colonies; his son, meanwhile, has become chief of his kidnapper's tribe. When the father falls into the hands of his son's tribe's greatest enemy, trouble brews.
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Spanish bit saga volume 2
Description
Before the outsider, now Chief Heads Off, brought the Elk Dog to The People their strategy had always been to flee or hide from their mortal enemies, the Head Splitters.
18) Black fox
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Pub. Date
1994, c1972
Description
For decades the Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land from ancient indian hunting grounds and the U.S. Army turned the tide of battle.Led by the remarkable waarrior, Little Buffalo, the Comanche and Kiowa are united in a campaign to wipe out the settlers forever.
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