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1) Mr. Tucket
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Tucket adventures volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
2) Destiny mine
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Janelle Taylor, bestselling author of Chase The Wind, now brings us the thrilling story of an Indian maiden who has been trained as a warrior-and the Cheyenne brave who is everything she desires. . .and everything that is forbidden.
By the age of twenty, the maiden called Kionee can ride, fight and hunt better than most men. Yet with her lovely face concealed behind a mask, she feels a secrets loneliness knowing she can never marry or know a lover's...
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On his first trip west Zane Grey met Buffalo Jones, who had not only been witness to the great herds of buffalo that once roamed the Great Plains, but had participated in their destruction. In 1923, Grey decided to write the epic story of those thundering herds, the great hunt that decimated them, and the battle between the Plains Indians and the buffalo hunters. At last that magnificent panorama is being published just as he wrote it--violent and...
4) Black fox
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For decades the Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land from ancient indian hunting grounds and the U.S. Army turned the tide of battle.Led by the remarkable waarrior, Little Buffalo, the Comanche and Kiowa are united in a campaign to wipe out the settlers forever.
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Spanish bit saga volume 2
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Before the outsider, now Chief Heads Off, brought the Elk Dog to The People their strategy had always been to flee or hide from their mortal enemies, the Head Splitters.
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Spanish bit saga volume 4
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The younger son of a legendary chief must make his own contribution to the People by learning the way of the buffalo from an ancient medicine man.
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Spanish bit saga volume 3
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A Spanish father searches for his long-lost son north of the Mexican colonies; his son, meanwhile, has become chief of his kidnapper's tribe. When the father falls into the hands of his son's tribe's greatest enemy, trouble brews.
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In the Wyoming wild, Blackfoot warriors prepare for battle, their bloodlust stirred by a legendary prophet promising victory in a war that will forever rid the plains of the white man. To legendary mountain man Preacher, it isn't a promise - it's a threat. But being out-numbered in a savage frontier means justice will be as hard-earned and uncertain.
13) Makoons
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Birchbark house volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 18
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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#18 The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains, where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
16) Chickadee
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Birchbark house volume 4
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
17) Cheyenne again
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A poignant look at the pain inflicted upon one child by a dominant culture's heavy-handed attempt to "help." Near the turn of the century, a Cheyenne boy, Young Bull, is forced to attend the off-reservation Indian school so that he can learn to become a part of the white world.