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IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
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"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly to life. The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans portrays the inevitable conflict of opposed cultures and stands as a testament to the ways in which this struggle has been mythologized. Featuring the well-loved noble woodsman Natty Bumppo, or "Hawk-eye," Cooper's novel is a memorable...
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Publisher's description: Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson--war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South--whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail...
27) Trail of Tears
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Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
29) Apache ambush
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Pub. Date
c1980
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He was half Apache, half white. As a boy, he had seen his Indian mother gunned down by the hated bluecoats during an attack on his village. Now, years later, here he was, Wade Chisholm, scout for the US Cavalry, alone in Apache country, asked to locate the hostiles. Amournful sound filled the desolate desert. The Apache death chant. Chisholm was as good as dead.
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2002.
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The fate of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel has fascinated Jews and Christians throughout the ages. Hillel Halkin, a distinguished writer and translator, has long been intrigued by the old legend that the tribes still exist in distant corners of the earth -- a legend that, like nearly all contemporary investigators of the subject, he considered to lack all factual basis. In 1998, he accompanied a Jerusalem rabbi and dedicated Lost Tribes hunter to China,...
34) Power up!
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[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the world of Chima, where powerful tribes use CHI orbs to power up their vehicles, weapons, and even themselves.
35) Little Big Man
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Jack Crab, who is 111 years-old, discusses his life as a White man and as a Cheyenne Indian.
38) Torn: a novella
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2022
Description
In a world that is falling apart, four Tribes war with each other for leadership. The Elements, who are forced to fight, lose more courage everyday. Mortals flee their homes in lieu of natural disasters. The saving grace is a prophecy. The fate of the Tribes and the human race hangs in the balance of the sacred words being carried out.
Seventeen-year-old Remy Castillo had somewhat of a normal life, fighting for the Water Tribe in Northern Colorado....