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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--
Author
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Place to call home (Al Lacy) volume 2
Language
English
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Heavens Shine Above New Beginnings
1839. The North Carolina Cherokees are settling into their new home in Indian Territory and Britt Claiborne and Cherokee Rose are settling into married life. Britt, a quarter Cherokee Indian, is released from the United States army and joins the Cherokee Police Force where his position takes him into fearsome and heart-gripping dangers. They raise two children with much love and delight. They also lean...
1839. The North Carolina Cherokees are settling into their new home in Indian Territory and Britt Claiborne and Cherokee Rose are settling into married life. Britt, a quarter Cherokee Indian, is released from the United States army and joins the Cherokee Police Force where his position takes him into fearsome and heart-gripping dangers. They raise two children with much love and delight. They also lean...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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From the age of twelve, when he is sent alone into the wilderness to run an Indian trading post, Will's life becomes intertwined with the destiny of the Cherokee Indians, as he falls in love with a girl named Claire, and builds a friendship with a chief named Bear.
Author
Series
Place to call home (Al Lacy) volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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.
10) Cherokee Rose
Author
Series
Place to call home (Al Lacy) volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears
Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture-running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States-they...
16) The Cherokee
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the traditional life of the Cherokee peoples in the southern Appalachian Mountains, their beliefs and sense of community, culture, their forced migration along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, and life in the twentieth century and beyond.
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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Otsaliheliga is a Cherokee word that is used to express gratitude. Journey through the year with a Cherokee family and their tribal nation as they express thanks for celebrations big and small. A look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
20) The real enemy
Author
Series
Sophie Trace trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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"Brill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar eighteen-year career on the Memphis police force...Before she even has time to unpack her boxes, people start disappearing. Lots of them. To complicate matters, a local legend has many residents believing that the cause is unearthly--tied to red "shadows", or spirits of the departed Cherokee who once inhabited the land..."--p.[4]...
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