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1) LaRose
Author
Language
English
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Description
North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence—but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he’s hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor’s five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best...
The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
3) Shadow tag
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Irene America, having discovered that her artist husband Gil is reading her diary, begins making things up for him to find, placing their marriage on even shakier ground, and while she drinks and works on her doctoral thesis about a painter of Native American subjects, Gil begins the defining work of his career, and their three children suffer the consequences of their parents' failed relationship.
Author
Language
English
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Description
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
5) Makoons
Author
Series
Birchbark House volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
6) Chickadee
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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