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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
2) Elatsoe
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
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Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
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Description
"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Earth Keeper: Reflections on an American Land, Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. "When I think about my life and the lives of my ancestors, I am inevitably led to the conviction that I, and they, belong to the American land. This is a declaration of belonging. And it is an offering to the earth." he writes. Earth Keeper is a story of attachment, rooted in oral tradition. Momaday recalls stories of his childhood...
8) Mystic horse
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After caring for an old abandoned horse, a poor young Pawnee boy is rewarded by the horse's mystic powers.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts...
14) Coyote blue
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Sam Hunter, a yuppie salesman who has everything he needs except the beautiful Calliope's love, confronts Coyote, the Indian trickster god, and his own forgotten and buried life as Samson Hunts Alone, a native American outlaw. Coyote reawakens the mystical storyteller within Sam-- and seriously screws up his existence in the process ...
Publisher
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"These fascinating tales of the Native American peoples are filled with outlandish characters, heroic feats and astonishing accounts of the world's creation. Extraordinarily diverse and meaningful, they are a cultural landmark in North American literature. Featuring more than 50 legends and illustrated by the striking photography of Edward Curtis, Native American Myths and Legends showcases the imagination, insight and oral traditions of North America's...
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