Joseph Bruchac
1) Two roads
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
320 pageds ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his pop have been riding the rails for a year after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, D.C.--and Cal can't go with him. So Pop tells Cal something he never knew before: He's a Creek Indian, which means Cal is, too. And Pop has decided to send Cal to Challagi Indian School, a government...
2) Pocahontas
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
173, [1] p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia.
4) Rez dogs
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Voyager Books ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists.
9) Peacemaker
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
156 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.