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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Forrest Carter's controversial work about an orphaned boy in 1930s Appalachian Tennessee who learns about his cultural heritage when he is adopted by his Native American grandparents and learns about prejudice when he is sent to a boarding school run by Whites.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Otsaliheliga is a Cherokee word that is used to express gratitude. Journey through the year with a Cherokee family and their tribal nation as they express thanks for celebrations big and small. This book presents a look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
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Molly Bearpaw mysteries volume 3
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A major crimes investigator for the tribal police, Molly Bearpaw is called in when several Cherokees die after finding piles of seven black stones near their homes--the sign of an ancient curse.
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Molly Bearpaw mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Officer Molly Bearpaw, crime investigator for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, probes the death of a woman shaman found hanging in a library. Suspects range from the local medicine man, afraid the shaman would take away business, to the wife of a man having an affair with the shaman. By the author of Seven Black Stones.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
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"Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons is the story of one man's remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear,...
13) Masked dancers
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Small-town chief of police Mitch Bushyhead becomes involved in a mystery that has implications for the entire town of Buckskin, Oklahoma, when he sets out to discover who murdered a young game warden whose body was found next to the carcass of an illegally killed bald eagle.
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Homelanders volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Charlie West went to bed one night an ordinary high school student. He woke up a hunted man. For as long as they could remember, a proud native people passed the legacy of the land from one generation to the next. But violent change is coming to the lush forests and fertile valleys that will one day be known as Florida and Appalachia. Driven by a consuming greed that has turned to madness, the invaders call themselves Espanols."--BOOK JACKET. "In...
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"Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners...
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 4
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Though the war for American independence has come to an end, Nathanael "Fox" Carter still struggles to survive the tragic loss he has suffered. When greed and selfish ambition threaten to destroy the only home he has known, Fox and his mother flee over the Misty Mountains to start a new life. But with growing hostilities between the settlers and the Cherokee, Fox soon discovers frontier life is a daily battle for survival.
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Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.