Joseph Bruchac
1) Pocahontas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of 17th century Jamestown, Virginia.
3) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
6) Eagle song
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage.
7) The Warriors
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jake has left the reservation for Weltimore Academy and entered a different world. Everyone there loves lacrosse, but no one understands it the way Jake does, as an Iroquois. And no one understands Jake either. To the Iroquois, the game of lacrosse was more than recreation, more than competition. It was sacred. Young men and old played for Elder Brother, He Who Loves to Watch the People Play. Jake always remembered this. One of the best players on...
Author
Series
Killer of enemies volume 1
Publisher
Tu Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years ago, seventeen-year-old Apache hunter Lozen and her family lived in a world of haves and have-nots. There were the Ones--people so augmented with technology and genetic enhancements that they were barely human--and there was everyone else who served them. Then the Cloud came, and everything changed. Tech stopped working. The world plunged back into a new steam age. The Ones' pets--genetically engineered monsters--turned on them and are now loose...
9) Dawn land
Author
Series
Young Hunter series volume 1
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
About ten thousand years ago in the northeast, the Abenaki– People of the Dawn Land – created a thriving community in social and ecological balance with nature and with each other. One of the finest sons of the People is Young Hunter, who dedicates himself to becoming a pure hunter. But a shadow is crossing over this place, threatening his beloved homeland, and Young Hunter is called to its defense. The deep-seeing...
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Molly and her parents attend a conference at Mohonk Mountain House, Molly begins to fear that she is being watched by the very man who kidnapped and tried to kill them all the previous year.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An ancient and terrifying Narragansett native-American legend begins to come true for a teenage long-distance runner, whose recovery from the accident that killed her parents has stunned everyone, including her guardian aunt in Providence, Rhode Island.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.
13) Two roads
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.-- Provided by Publisher.
Author
Series
Killer of enemies volume 2
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Lozen and her family, on the run from the tyrants who once held them hostage, embark on a journey along a perilous trail once followed by her ancestors, where they meet friends and foes alike"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Killer of enemies volume 3
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of LEE & LOW Books Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Now settled in the Valley Where First Light Paints the Cliffs with her family and friends, Lozen turns her attention and her far-seeing abilities to protecting her community of refugees from the two remaining maniacal overlords of Haven, a ruthless assassin, and predatory genetically-modified monsters.
18) The powwow thief
Author
Series
Powwow mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Twins Jamie and Marie Longbow are excited about summer with their grandparents, traveling from powwow to powwow selling goods they helped to make. When their grandmother's most beautifulnecklace goes missing, it's up to the twins to solve the mystery"-- Dust jacket
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.