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Book cover for "Edge of two worlds".
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Publisher:
Dial Press
Pub. Date:
©1968
Language:
English
Description:
Based on incidents in the life of Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee's written language. This is the story of a 15-year-old Missouri boy, who is the sole survivor of a Comanche raid on a wagon train, and an old Cherokee Indian Sequoyah who face a long and difficult journey across the plains together, first as enemies, then as comrades in peril.
Book cover for "Man made monsters".
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Pub. Date:
2022
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Points: 12
Language:
English
Description:
Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
Book cover for "The reluctant storyteller".
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Publisher:
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date:
[2020]
Language:
English
Description:
"Chooch is reluctant about many things. He is reluctant to be a storyteller like the rest of his Cherokee family, and he is reluctant to spend spring break in the small town of Greasy, Oklahoma, with Uncle Dynamite. But Chooch will find out theres more than one way to tell a story." -- Back cover.
Book cover for "Mandie and the Cherokee legend".
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Publisher:
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date:
[1983]
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Points: 4
Lexile measure:
680L
Language:
English
Description:
Mandy is bewildered by the unhappy reaction of some of her Cherokee friends to her discovery of gold inside a cave and her Christian values are tested by a troublesome Cherokee cousin.
Book cover for "Mandie and the medicine man".
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Publisher:
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date:
[1986]
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Points: 4
Lexile measure:
660L
Language:
English
Description:
A Cherokee superstition seems to have come back to haunt Mandie and her friends - the gold they discovered has been donated to build a new hospital, but someone or something is tearing the walls down as fast as they can be built. The guard posted to watch the site is knocked out, tied up and blindfolded. Will Mandie be able to find her friend Joe? Will Mandie and Sallie be rescued from their kidnappers?
Book cover for "The whistling tree".
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Publisher:
Child & Family Press
Pub. Date:
2003
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Points: 0.5
Language:
English
Description:
When Penny begins searching for the source of the mysterious whistling she hears in her sleep, her parents take her to meet her great-great-uncle, who tells her about her Cherokee heritage.
Book cover for "On the long trail home".
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Publisher:
Clarion Books
Pub. Date:
[1994]
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Points: 3
Lexile measure:
720L
Language:
English
Description:
Meli and her brother Tahlikwa escape from the Cherokee people being herded westward on the Trail of Tears, determined to return to their beloved mountain home.
Book cover for "Soft Rain".
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Publisher:
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date:
1998
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Points: 3
Lexile measure:
650L
Language:
English
Description:
Soft Rain, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, is forced to relocate, along with her family, from North Carolina to the West.
Book cover for "Talking leaves".
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Points: 7
Lexile measure:
750L
Language:
English
Description:
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
Book cover for "The fledglings".
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Publisher:
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date:
1998
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Points: 7
Lexile measure:
850L
Language:
English
Description:
Orphaned after the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Kate runs away to live with her grandfather, a Cherokee Indian who is trying to stop the poaching of predator birds.
Book cover for "Magnolia flower".
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Language:
English
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Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one's heart.
Book cover for "Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi!".
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Publisher:
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 530L
Language:
English
Description:
Bo wants to find the perfect container to show off his traditional marbles for the Cherokee national Holiday. It needs to be just the right size: big enough to fit all the marbles, but not too big to fit in his family's booth at the festival for the Cherokee National Holiday. And it needs to look good! With his grandmother's help, Bo tries many containers until he finds just the right one. A playful exploration of volume and capacity featuring Native...
Book cover for "Being home".
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Publisher:
Kokila
Pub. Date:
2024
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 450L
Language:
English
Description:
On a day filled with anticipation, a young Cherokee girl bids farewell to her familiar city life and documents the changing landscape through drawings as her family moves to their ancestral land and embraces their new home.
Book cover for "Ahyoka and the talking leaves".
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IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Points: 1
Lexile measure:
520L
Language:
English
Description:
Ahyoka helps her father Sequoyah in his quest to create a system of writing for his people.
Book cover for "When we gather =".
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Publisher:
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Description:
"One Cherokee child celebrates the family tradition of gathering wild onions for a big community meal, a significant tradition among several southeastern tribes"--
Book cover for "Cherokee sister".
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Publisher:
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date:
2000
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Points: 4
Lexile measure:
640L
Language:
English
Description:
Because she is mistaken for an Indian, twelve-year-old Allie, a white girl, is forced to travel the Trail of Tears along with her best friend, a young Cherokee.
Book cover for "Pheasant hunting firsts".
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Publisher:
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Points: 1
Language:
English
Description:
Eleven-year-old Cherokee Zach Feather is going on his first pheasant hunting trip in Oklahoma with his parents, his first ever bird dog (Koda), and his grandfather's shotgun; but when the hunt gets started he discovers that there is a lot more to hunting than he realized and he needs to learn patience--if he survives his encounter with a very annoyed rattlesnake.
Book cover for "A letter for Bob".
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Points: 0.5
Language:
English
Description:
"Ever since the day Mom and Dad brought Bob home from the car dealership, Bob has been a part of Katie's family. Bob has taken them all over, from powwows to vacations to time spent with faraway family. Bob has been there in sad and scary times and for some of the family's most treasured memories. But after many miles, it's time for the family to say goodbye to Bob..."-- Katie writes a goodbye letter to her family's car that she named Bob, thanking...
Book cover for "At the mountain's base".
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Publisher:
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Points: 0.5
Lexile measure:
480L
Language:
English
Description:
"At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war."--Amazon
Book cover for "Mary and the Trail of Tears".
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Pub. Date:
2020
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
Description:
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...

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