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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In a high school gym full of color and song, people dance, sell beadwork
...2) Peacemaker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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"A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy"--
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The Birchbark House volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
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The Birchbark House volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
5) 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.
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The Birchbark House volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
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