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(0)Scott O'Dell
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English
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Newbery Honor Book
In this powerful novel based on historical events, the Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort Sumner is dramatically and courageously narrated by young Bright Morning.
Like the author's Newbery Medal-winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell's Sing Down the Moon is a gripping tale of survival, strength, and courage.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Newbery Honor Book: A “stunning” historical novel of a teenager’s journey from Spain to the New World in search of gold (Kirkus Reviews).
Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old, but he has experienced much adventure, traveling to the New World to hunt for gold with the Conquistadors. Whatever treasure they find, they were expected to give one-fifth of it to the king. But Esteban is accused...
Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old, but he has experienced much adventure, traveling to the New World to hunt for gold with the Conquistadors. Whatever treasure they find, they were expected to give one-fifth of it to the king. But Esteban is accused...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Through the eyes of a brave and independent young woman, Scott O'Dell tells of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce, a classic tale of cruelty, betrayal, and heroism.
This powerful account of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877 by the United States Army is narrated by Chief Joseph's strong and brave daughter.
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...4) Sarah Bishop
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English
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Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother, who take opposite sides in the War of Independence, Sarah Bishop flees from the British who seek to arrest her and struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
5) Carlota
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Language
English
Description
A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between Californians and Americans.
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Language
English
Description
Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers through Ricca di Montanaros eyes a new perspective on the man who became the famous Saint Francis of Assisi, the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace, he said. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there...
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Deutsch
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Die Insel, auf der das Mädchen Won-a-pa-lei lebt, sieht aus wie ein auf der Seite liegender Delfin. Seitdem ihr Stamm sie nach einem Überfall fremder Jäger hier zurückgelassen hat, ist Won-a-pa-lei die einzige Bewohnerin dieses Fleckchens Erde mitten im Pazifik. Ganz auf sich allein gestellt, baut sie sich eine Hütte, erbeutet Nahrung und schafft es, die Insel zu ihrem Zuhause werden zu lassen. Doch der Kampf ums Überleben ist hart: Sturmfluten,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
11) Zia
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
590L
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English
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
12) The black pearl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.
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English
Description
Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion. The work is divided into four main sections: the constitutional debate regarding the establishment and free exercise of religion clause, the themes of violence and nonviolence as they relate to religion, the free exercise...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"They were a team--the young Eskimo girl and the white dog, part husky but mostly wolf--a team, yes, but in some ways Black Star was the leader. Bright Dawn never expected to compete in the Iditarod, the dogsled race that covers more than a thousand miles between Anchorage and Nome. But now she's here, watching the trail skim by and her dogs running with their ears laid back, and she can't imagine being anywhere else. But the perils are numerous:...
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English
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So began the ceremony that was to make young Phaedrus, ex-slave and gladiator, Horse Lord of the Dalriadain. Phaedrus had come a long way since the fight in the arena that gained him his freedom. He had left behind his old Roman life and identity and had entered another, more primitive, world-that of the British tribes in the far north. In this world of superstition and ancient ritual, of fierce loyalties and intertribal rivalry, Phaedrus found companionship...