First North Americans
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First North Americans volume 3
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 30
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A sweeping epic of prehistory, People of the Earth brings the true story of the ancestors of today's Native American peoples to life in an unforgettable saga of hardship and passion, of a woman torn between two peoples and two dreams, of the two men who love her and the third who must have her, and of the vision given to the peoples long ago by the spirit of the wolf.
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A gripping new saga of pre-historic America that takes us to the Mississippi Valley and the tribe known as the Mound builders. It is a time of troubles. In Cahokia, the corn crop is failing again and a warchief--and the warrior woman he may never possess--are disgusted by their Chief's lust for tribute. Now even the gods have turned their faces, closing the underworld to the seers. If the gods have abandoned the people, there is no hope--unless it...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 28
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The coastal people of what will be California, Arizona and New Mexico are struggling with the changing world around them. As the mammoths disappear, the seer Sunchaser must decide whether to shelter a beautiful stranger and risk angering the Spirits further.
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Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 44
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A tale of the earliest people on the North American continent, set two millenia ago. The protagonist is Star Shell, daughter of a Hopewell chief, who undertakes a perilous journey to Niagara Falls to drown an evil totemic mask before it destroys her race. By the husband-and-wife team of archaeologists who wrote People of the Sea, People of the Wolf and People of the Fire.
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First North Americans volume 7
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 26
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This book is set in ancient Florida, in a village of fisherfolk who must face their deepest fear: Pondwader, a lanky youth of fifteen summers. He is the White Lightning Boy - the first of his kind to be born in tens of tens of summers. His white hair, pink eyes, and pale skin make him fearsome enough, but legends foretell that a Lightning Boy will make Sister Moon bury her face in the clouds and weep falling stars - and the winds of destruction will...
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Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 34
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The Great Sun Chief endangers the entire Anasazi empire when he sets out to kill Cornsilk, the child his wife secretly bore to another man fifteen years earlier, forcing the girl to flee her attackers, along with her friend Poor Singer, and struggle to survive while she seeks to discover her true identity.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
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"People of the Mist takes us to the Chesapeake Bay of six hundred years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens to turn the entire Algonquin Nation against itself in a war that could destroy it as a people." "High Fox, the young man who had an obsessive love for Red Knot, is the prime suspect in the murder. The woman who loves him cannot believe him guilty, offering herself, body and soul, to...
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Pub. Date
1999, c1998
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
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With the help of a young village girl named Wren, Rumbler, the foretold "Manitou Child," escapes from Jumping Badger, the ruthless war leader who murdered his mother, destroyed his home, and kidnapped him in an attempt to seize control of the child of power.
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[2003]
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At fifteen winters, Salamander becomes the leader of his clan after His brother is killed. He inherits his brother's two wives and is forced to marry his enemy's daughter to forge an alliance for the trade goods his people need. Young Salamander is forced by circumstance to become a man quickly.
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First North Americans volume 12
Pub. Date
2004
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A tale spun around the controversial archaeological discovery of Kennewick Man, a caucasiod male mummy dating back more than 9,000 years, found in the Pacific Northwest on the banks of the Columbia River.
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First North Americans volume 14
Pub. Date
[2007]
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This is the sweeping saga of a visionary boy who led his people out of the path of one of the worst catastrophes in the history of the world, and the brave little girl who loved him enough to believe in his dream.
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People called Old White the "Seeker," a man never long with any people or place. For years he had wandered, leaving a trail of war, wonder, and broken love in his wake. Now he is headed home, called back by visions of chaos, blood, and fire. But there is more to the Seeker than most know. He is a man driven by a secret so terrible it may topple the greatest city in North America. When the far-off Katsinas told Old White it was time to go home, he...
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First North Americans volume 16
Pub. Date
2009.
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By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls.
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2015.
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"On the shores of the sparsely populated American wilderness, a small group of intrepid settlers have landed, seeking freedom to worship and prosper far from the religious strife and political upheaval that plague a war-ridden Europe... 500 years before Columbus set sail. While it has long been known that Viking ships explored the American coast, recent archaeological evidence suggests a far more vast and permanent settlement. It is from this evidence...
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"In a magnificent war-torn world cut by soaring red canyons, an evil ruler launches a search for a mystical artifact that he hopes will bring him ultimate power--an ancient witch's pot that reputedly contains the trapped soul of the most powerful witch ever to have lived. The aged healer Tocho has to stop him, but to do it he must ally himself with the bitter and broken witch hunter, Maicoh, whose only goal is achieving one last great kill. Caught...