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1) Ghost canoe
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighthouse keeper, refuses to believe the authorities, who say there were no survivors. Unexplained footprints on a desolate beach, a theft at the trading post, and glimpses of a wild "hairy man" convince Nathan that someone is hiding in the remote sea caves along the coast. With his new friend, Lighthouse George,...
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Series
Description
Kaya's Nez Perce people are known for their skill with horses, and Kaya hopes to become the best horsewoman in the village. But after accepting a foolish challenge that puts her brothers in danger, Kaya earns a punishment and an insulting nickname. Kaya is inspired by a brave young woman in her village, and is determined to make better choices. Will Kaya prove that she can change--and lose that horrible nickname?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Percé Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kaya, 1764 volume 6
American girls collection. Kaya 1764 volume 6
American Girl Kaya volume 6
American girls collection. Kaya 1764 volume 6
American Girl Kaya volume 6
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While looking for Steps High, the horse that had been stolen from her, Kaya faces danger from a sudden grassland fire. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Kaya, 1764 volume 2
American girls collection. Kaya 1764 volume 2
American Girl Kaya volume 2
American girls collection. Kaya 1764 volume 2
American Girl Kaya volume 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In the winter of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Kaya and her family join with other Nez Percé and Salish Indians to fish for the red salmon, she and her older sister hope to be reunited with their younger sister, who had been kidnapped some time before. Includes historical notes on the summer activities of the Nez Percé Indians.
8) Golden Sun
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Follows Golden Sun, an Appaloosa horse, through several seasons as Little Turtle, a Nez Perce boy, raises and trains him then takes him along on a vision quest in hopes of saving his friend Pale Moon from serious illness.
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Kaya, 1764 volume 2
Kaya classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kaya 1764 volume 2
Kaya classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kaya 1764 volume 2
Description
Feeling lonesome and missing her sister and her horse who were captured by enemy raiders, Kaya befriends a dog that has wandered near camp. Although others warn her not to trust the animal, Kaya senses something different. Then, an annual gathering makes Kaya hopeful of her sister' return, and a group of hunters bring news of horses running wild in the mountains. Will this summer bring the happy reunions Kaya's tribe is hoping for?
10) Storm boy
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A story drawn from Haida Indian literary tradition in which a boy falls from his canoe into a world of 18-foot tall human-like creatures who welcome him and eventually return him to his village.
11) Brother Bear
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Brother Bear, an epic tale about a boy who is transformed into a bear and forced to see the world through the eyes of his enemy.
12) Frog girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the frogs suddenly vanish from the lake behind her village, a young Native American girl is led to the frog village underneath the lake and learns what she must do to save both the frogs and her own people.
13) Bear with me
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When Kenai, a Native American boy living in the Pacific Northwest in prehistoric times, is transformed into a bear, he learns about the lives of creatures other than man.
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In 1765, the arrival of an injured stranger from another tribe, traveling alone and apparently unable to speak, arouses suspicion in Kaya's Nez Percé village. Includes glossary and historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians
17) Written in stone
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"A young girl in a Pacific Northwest Native American tribe in the 1920s must deal with the death of her father and the loss of her tribe's traditional ways"--Provided by publisher.
20) Broken Feather
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text portray the way of life of the Nez Percé people, and how everything changed after the white men arrived, as seen through the eyes of a young girl, Broken Feather.