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Arctic Thaw

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Arctic Thaw
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In 2005 photographer Peter Lourie and scientist, Dr. Paul Shepson headed to the Arctic to explore first hand the effects of global warming. They chose a region in the...
 
 
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491

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Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491
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Charles C. Mann has released a version of his adult book, 1491, for younger readers, and in doing so has made his remarkable research accessible...
 
 
Big Moon Tortilla

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Big Moon Tortilla
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The enticing smell of Grandmother's tortillas is curling around the nose of Marta Enos as she sits at the end of the day finishing her homework on a Tohono...
 
 
Birdie

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Birdie
Fiction/Non-Fiction
If you mention the "Great Sioux Uprising Of 1862", most will think you mean the later 1876 conflict of Custer and the Battle Of The Little Big Horn". Although...
 
 
Brave as a Mountain Lion

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Brave as a Mountain Lion
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Spider, a contemporary Shoshone boy, is worried. He has a note from school saying he qualifies for the school-wide spelling bee, but he...
 
 
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express

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Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express
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When fifteen year old Bill Cody sees the sign that the Pony Express is hiring, he tries to talk his way into the job. He can ride. ...
 
 
Cate of the Lost Colony

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Cate of the Lost Colony
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Seeing Indians in Queen Elizabeth’s court, young Lady Catherine Archer is enthralled by Sir Walter Raleigh’s reports of his New World colony and by Sir Walter himself. But when...
 
 
Cats of Tanglewood Forest

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The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
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It was the cats who decided to save Lillian. She just wanted to say hello to the fairies, but here she lies, dying of snakebite. Changed by their magic...
 
 
Charlie’s Raven

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Charlie’s Raven
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Our connection to the natural world is celebrated in this story of thirteen-year-old Charlie and his raven, Blue Sky. Charlie’s grandfather is ill and Charlie wants to help him...
 
 
Cheyenne Again

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Cheyenne Again
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Young Bull is a ten year old Cheyenne Native American boy who is having to leave his family and all he knows to go to a boarding school where...
 
 
Crooked River

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Crooked River
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It's 1812 out in the pioneer territory of Ohio, and you can almost smell the Native American who is chained upstairs in the loft, accused of murder. The two...
 
 
Daughter of Winter

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Daughter of Winter
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In 1849 Massachusetts, twelve-year-old Addie loses her father to Gold Rush fever, and her mother and younger brother a short time later to illness. Living at the edge...
 
 
Dawn Land

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Dawn Land
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Set 10,000 years ago in what is now New England, Young Hunter’s coming-of-age quest weaves Native American legends and paleo-history in Bruchac’s unforgettable first novel here re-presented as a...
 
 
Emerald Atlas: The Books of Beginning Trilogy, Book One

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Emerald Atlas: The Books of Beginning Trilogy, Book One
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Three small children -- brought to safety on a winter night as their parents fled for their lives – Kate remembers it dimly, but Michael and Emma were too...
 
 
Encounter

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Encounter
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Point of view is in full flourish in this tale of Christopher Columbus "discovering" America. In the mind of a young Indian boy, Taino, the foreigners who arrive by...
 
 
Everglades Forever: Restoring America's Great Wetland

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Everglades Forever: Restoring America's Great Wetland
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This beautifully photographed book is a wonderful introduction to the Everglades for children. Author Trish Marx and photographer Cindy Karp have created a book that has accessible text for...
 
 
Exposure (Twisted Lit series)

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Exposure
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Skye would rather be home in Anchorage, but how could she stay after what Craig did? A boyfriend who killed someone… The summer that he moved north...
 
 
Fated (Soul Seekers, book 1)

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Fated
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Time’s flow restarts, and the glowing people observe Daine from shadowed nooks, as she traverses the Moroccan marketplace on the way to her 16th birthday dinner. Not jet lag,...
 
 
I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer

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I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
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Matthew Henson didn't walk all the way from Washington, D.C to Baltimore just to "look at the ships at the dock." Henson's determination, courage, and willingness to seize opportunity...
 
 
Indian in the Cupboard

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Indian in the Cupboard
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It's his birthday, and Omri's best friend, Patrick, has just given him his gift: a plastic Indian. Oh man, such a disap, ointment! He's tired of playing with plastic...
 
 
 
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