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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for Grades 6-8

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1500s
Topic
Native Americans/Canadians | Pilgrims | Roanoke
Geographic Region
United States - America | Virginia
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book | Ebook

Lyon’s Roar (The Lyon Saga #1)

Author: Stainer, M.L.Part of a Series: Lyon Saga

Fourteen-year-old Jess relates her sea voyage with other English families to Roanoke Island in 1587, their attempt to make a permanent settlement, and Jess’s contact with the Croatoan Indians.

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Lexile/Reading Level
890L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Great Depression | Modern
Date
1930s
Topic
Biography | Cherokee | Family Relationships | Native Americans/Canadians
Geographic Region
Appalachia | Tennessee | United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Award-Winning Book
American Booksellers Book Of The Year Award for Children
Format
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Education of Little Tree, The

Author: Carter, Forrest

Forrest Carter, from the age of four or five, was inseparable from his part-Cherokee grandfather, who owned a farm and ran a country store nearby. Granpa called him Little Sprout; when he grew taller, he became Little Tree. From Granpa he absorbed the Cherokee ethic; to give love without expecting gratitude, to take from the land only what you need. Little Tree watches a mountain storm when Nature is birthing Spring, learns bird signs and wind songs and which crops to plant by the dark of the moon. He hears the true story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears, and why it is not the Indian who wept, but the watching white man. From a Jewish peddler who came every season to Granpa’s store he learns a lesson in charity; from a sharecropper he learns to understand misplaced pride. He escapes death through Granpa’s courage and confronts, for the first time, the hypocrisy and brutality of white Americans.Much of the lore passed from generation to generation by word of mouth is found in these stories in “The Education of Little Tree,” autobiographical if not all factually accurate. For instance, Granma is based on family memories of Carter’s great-great-great grandmother (Granpa’s great-grandmother), who was a full Cherokee, combined with the author’s own mother, who read Shakespeare to him when he was a child. But Granpa is all and forever true in this storyteller’s memoir of a time that ended when Little Tree was ten and Granpa died.

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Lexile/Reading Level
AD380L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Folklore | Picture Book

Topic
Birds | Native Americans/Canadians | Ravens
Main Character
Animal
Award-Winning Book
Caldecott | Caldecott Honor
Format
Book

Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

Author: McDermott, Gerald

Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. But can he find out where Sky Chief keeps it? And if he does, will he be able to escape without being discovered? His dream seems impossible, but if anyone can find a way to bring light to the world, wise and clever Raven can!

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 1-4 Grade

Genre/Category
Biographies | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
American History | Biography | Native Americans/Canadians | Pocahontas
Geographic Region
United States - America
Format
Audiobook | Book

Pocahontas

Author: d'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin

First published in 1946 with the d’Aulaires’s beautiful lithographic prints, this tale of the first colony at Jamestown is told from the perspective of the princess daughter of the mighty chief Powhatan. When the Natives judge the white man’s magic as evil, John Smith is condemned to death— – only the intervention of Pocahontas saves his life and a tentative friendship is established between Pocahontas’s tribe and the new colonists. The King of England sends a crown, rich robes and a royal bed to honor Powhatan and he is pleased, but the white man’s insistence that the Indians give them corn to sustain them through the long winters threatens their tenuous relationship. Pocahontas’s ultimate marriage to John Rolfe, the birth of their son, their voyage to England and presentation to the King and Queen is the stuff of fairy tales except that it is one of the great true stories of America’s earliest days. 46pg

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Native Americans/Canadians | Plains Indians | Political Unrest | Social Change | Truth and Lies
Geographic Region
Nevada
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book | Ebook

Woodcutter, The

Author: Bartholomew, Steve

In the winter of 1888, Dana Reynolds has no reason to believe in anything, until he runs afoul of Wovoka. Dana doesn’t believe in Truth. Telling the truth was what lost him his job back at the Chronicle in San Francisco. Well, that and drinking a little too much. In Nevada he’s learning that Indian agents can be as crooked as politicians. Just asking a few too many questions around here earned him a beating and a cracked rib. Now he was supposed to report on that so-called Paiute prophet, Wovoka, the Woodcutter. The only nice thing about Greenfield, Nevada was Charlene, the telegraph operator. Seems like even she’s gullible enough to fall for the Woodcutter’s line. He’s obviously another fake, as much a fake as Dana himself. Or is he?

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
American West | Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Cheyenne | Marriage and Divorce | Native Americans/Canadians | Pioneers | Ulysses S. Grant | US Presidents
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Woman/Women
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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Author: Fergus, Jim

One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial “Brides for Indians” program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man’s world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
American West | Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Abduction | American History | Apaches | Native Americans/Canadians
Geographic Region
Texas | United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
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Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

Author: Zesch, Scott

On New Year’s Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe’s fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family.

That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle’s grave. Determined to understand how such a “good boy” could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelists eye, Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Native Americans/Canadians | Seminole | War | War Chief
Geographic Region
Florida | United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
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Light a Distant Fire

Author: Robson, Lucia St. Clair

Osceola had no illusions that the struggle would be an easy one. But after years of humbly acquiescing to the white men’s demands, he was ready to fight no matter what the cost. The young men would have the chance to earn war honors. Their women would have reason to be proud of them again.
When “Old Man” Jackson declared war on the Seminole, he never envisioned battling a people who would become symbols of courage, loyalty, and patriotism. Led by the mighty warrior Osceola and witnessed by his beloved daughter Little Warrior, they were men and women fighting an unjust war of greed and aggression — and the bonds of love and rebellion that united them would thrust them into the heart of a conflict that would change the world and their lives forever.
“Robson is especially good at detailing the daily life of the 19th Century Seminoles and her Osceola is a charismatic and proud hero.” — The Orlando Sentinel

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Captives | Comanche | Culture and Traditions | Native Americans/Canadians
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s) | Woman/Women
Award-Winning Book
Spur Award for Best Historical Novel
Format
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Ride the Wind

Author: Robson, Lucia St. Clair

In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever….

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Romance

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Cherokee | Culture and Traditions | Native Americans/Canadians | Romance | Sam Houston
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men | Woman/Women
Format
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Walk in My Soul

Author: Robson, Lucia St. Clair

Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee. And the dreams each had for their land and their people were far apart….

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GRADELEXILE
1st0-300L
2nd140-500L
3rd330-700L
4th445-810L
5th565-910L
6th665-1000L
7th735-1065L
8th805-1100L
9th855-1165L
10th905-1195L
11th/12th940-1210L
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