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Spirit of Appalachia volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Though the war for American independence has come to an end, Nathanael "Fox" Carter still struggles to survive the tragic loss he has suffered. When greed and selfish ambition threaten to destroy the only home he has known, Fox and his mother flee over the Misty Mountains to start a new life. But with growing hostilities between the settlers and the Cherokee, Fox soon discovers frontier life is a daily battle for survival.
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2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
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"Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons is the story of one man's remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear,...
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Place to call home (Al Lacy) volume 1
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[2006]
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Eighteen-year-old Cherokee Rose, regarded as an oddity in her tribe for her mixed blood and Christian faith, joins her people when they are forced from their land in the Smoky Mountains into a thousand-mile trek to Indian Territory, enduring many hardships along the way, and earning the respect and love of Lt. Britt Claiborne.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...
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Cherokee Rose and Britt Claiborne know the meaning of survival: they had endured the Trail of Tears. Now married, they plan a future of home and family. And though Britt's work as a law officer in Indian Territory takes him away from home for days at a time, Cherokee Rose tries not to worry. Then, the unthinkable. A group of Indians break out of jail, bent on revenge against the one who imprisoned them : Britt. Then word comes that Britt is missing....
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Forrest Carter's controversial work about an orphaned boy in 1930s Appalachian Tennessee who learns about his cultural heritage when he is adopted by his Native American grandparents and learns about prejudice when he is sent to a boarding school run by Whites.
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"Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners...
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"Janet Dailey creates a new dynasty - the Stuart and Gordon families - telling their story in a grand, sweeping novel colored by history and emotions. In this breathtaking work set against the explosive backdrop of the Civil War, a part-Cherokee man and a Union officer's daughter find themselves drawn together by a desire as wild as the hot summer wind ... and torn apart by a heritage of passion, feuds, and unbending pride."--BOOK JACKET.
12) Cherokee America
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"From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center"--
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The spring of 1806 found Hiram Harris and his Cherokee wife, Sarah, and their family leaving the east Tennesee hills to settle a new home in New Madrid, a town on the Mississippi River. Soon they would be dead and their children sold into slavery. It seemed the very earth had turned against them all with floods and earthquakes, but the Harris children miraculously survive, escape and continue their extraordinary journey west.
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Place to call home (Al Lacy) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
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LAND RUSH! Britt Clairborne, United Cherokee Nation Chief of Police, and his sweet wife, Cherokee Rose, face challenging times. It's 1889, and the Cherokees are being moved onto reservations within the Oklahoma District. The remainder of the land promised to them decades ago is being opened for white settlers to homestead. Of course, the Cherokees are unhappy. Some are outraged and want to stand and fight-despite Britt's warning that they will be...
16) The actor
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Bluford Steele, always an outsider because of his Cherokee blood and white man's education, finds his calling as an actor, but he is called to perform a more dangerous role when the acting troupe he is traveling with comes under fire in the lawless town of West Riddle.
17) The storyteller
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
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Jane Yellowrock novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
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Jane Yellowrock, a vampire-killing shape-shifting skinwalker, must uncover the identity of the vampire who wants to steal her bosses territory, and, when a plague strikes, she is ordered to discover its cause.
19) Ravenmocker
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Molly Bearpaw mysteries volume 1
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Asked to witness the autopsy of an elderly Cherokee man who died unexpectedly in his nursing home, native American Advocacy League Investigator Molly Bearpaw discovers that the dead man's heart has been stolen.
20) Skinwalker
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Jane Yellowrock novels volume 1
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"Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind--a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires--and hunts the undead for a living. But now she's been hired by Katherine Fonteneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katie's Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who's killing other vamps. Amidst a bordello full of real 'ladies of the night,' and a hot Cajun biker with a panther tattoo who stirs her carnal...