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Author:
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.
Author:
Pub. Date:
2022
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Points: 12
Language:
English
Formats:
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.
Author:
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.
Author:
Publisher:
Levine Querido
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Description:
"Sissy's younger brother, Chooch, isn't a baby anymore. They just celebrated his second birthday, after all. But no matter what Chooch does -- even if he's messing something up! Which is basically all the time! -- their parents say he's just "helping." Sissy feels that Chooch can get away with anything! When Elisi paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Edutsi makes grape dumplings, Chooch helps. When Oginalii gigs for crawdads, Chooch helps. When Sissy...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Mandie mysteries volume 2.
Series:
Mandie mysteries volume 2
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.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Mandie mysteries volume 6.
Series:
Mandie mysteries volume 6
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?
Author:
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.
Author:
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.
9. Find her
Author:
Publisher:
Holiday House
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Description:
"In dreams, Wren can see her again: her eyes, her hair, her smile. She can even hear her laugh. Her mother, one of hundreds of Native Americans considered missing or murdered in Oklahoma. Sometimes it seems like Wren and her grandmother are the only people still looking. Even more frustrating, Wren's overprotective father won't talk about it. Wren refuses to give up, though. And an opportunity to find lost pets seems like a real way to hone her detective...
10. Talking leaves
Author:
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Points: 7
Lexile measure:
750L
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
12. The fledglings
Author:
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.
13. Magnolia flower
Author:
Language:
English
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Description:
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.
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Series:
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...
15. Being home
Author:
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.
18. Cherokee sister
Author:
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.
Author:
Series:
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.
20. A letter for Bob
Author:
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Points: 0.5
Language:
English
Formats:
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...
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