Lessons from the samurai : ancient self-defense strategies and techniques
Neff, Fred.
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On Order
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Explains the history and philosophy of Japan's samurai warriors and describes basic self-defense techniques, which include jujitsu, judo, and kendo.
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They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
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Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more.
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Witness
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Hesse, Karen .
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A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
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Life under the Jim Crow laws
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George, Charles
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305.896 GEO
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Discusses the background and effects of the Jim Crow laws that were enacted after the Civil War to keep the races segregated.
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The help
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Stockett, Kathryn
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FIC STO
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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A dream of freedom : the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968
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McWhorter, Diane .
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323.1196 MCW
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In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated). Beginning with an overview of the movement since the end of the Civil War, McWhorter also discusses such events as the 1956 MTGS bus boycott, the 1961 Freedom Rides, and the 1963 demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, among others.
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One crazy summer
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Williams-Garcia, Rita .
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In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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Fire from the rock
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Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills) .
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In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school. Includes author's note and related websites.
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The Little Rock Nine : struggle for integration
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Fitzgerald, Stephanie .
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373.767 FIT
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Describes how nine African American students in Little Rock, Arkansas helped change the education system in America by standing up for their rights to attend school alongside of white students.
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Morning glory afternoon
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Brown, Irene Bennett .
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: In Kansas in 1924, seventeen-year-old Jessamyn takes a job as a switchboard operator in a small town far from home and soon finds that her new community is in the grip of fanatic prejudices that force her to take a stand for what she knows is right.
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1963 Birmingham church bombing : the Ku Klux Klan's history of terror
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Klobuchar, Lisa
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The origins of the Ku Klux Klan -- Rebirth -- The Klan in the 1920s -- Taking on civil rights -- The violence peaks -- The Klan's fourth era : the 1970s and beyond.
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The legend of Buddy Bush
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Moses, Shelia
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FIC MOS
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Twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a brain tumor.
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Witnesses to freedom : young people who fought for civil rights
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Rochelle, Belinda
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323.4 ROC
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Describes the experiences of young Blacks who were involved in significant events in the civil rights movement, including Brown vs. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the sit-in movement.
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Living through the Civil Rights Movement
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George, Charles .
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323.1196 LIV
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The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s marked a turning point in how a person of one ethnic, religious, or social group views someone in another group. In addition to revolutionizing race relations in the United States, the Movement profoundly influenced freedom movements around the world.
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B for Buster
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Lawrence, Iain
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FIC LAW
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Sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age in the spring of 1943 to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany.
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Going to war in World War II
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Butterfield, Moira ; Bergin, Mark
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This book examines how armies, navies, and air forces of the Allies and the Axis powers fought in World War II.
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From sea to shining sea :
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Nelson, Sheila.
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The primrose way /
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Koller, Jackie French.
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From ballots to breadlines: American women, 1920-1940
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Deutsch, Sarah Jane
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That Camden summer
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Spencer, LaVyrle.
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Divorcee Roberta Jewett must deal with the unwanted advances of her philandering brother-in-law and the censure of the townspeople when she returns to her hometown of Camden, Maine to begin a nursing job, but discovers friendship and love from unexpected sources.
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A higher geometry
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Moranville, Sharelle Byars
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Album of the sixties, An
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Emmens, Carol A .
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973.92 EMM
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Text and pictures present an overview of the political, social, and cultural events of the 1960's.
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The 1960s
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by Dudley, William .
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973.92 DUD
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Presents a history of life in the United States during the 1960s, including the Kennedy years, Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the counterculture, and the gender and sex revolutions.
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Countdown
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Wiles, Deborah.
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FIC WIL
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"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear..."-
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The cloud chamber
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Maynard, Joyce
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In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.
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This fabulous century, 1960-1970
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Chronicles 1960’s through 1970
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The Ramsay scallop
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Temple, Frances .
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Set in 13th-century Europe, a coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old orphan. Eleanor of Ramsay is betrothed to the rakish Thomas, who has just returned from fighting in the Crusades for eight years. Frightened by the prospect of an arranged marriage to a man she hardly knows, Eleanor worries even more when the town priest sends her and Thomas on a pilgrimage to Spain to atone for the sins of all the townspeople.
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Time enough for drums
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Rinaldi, Ann .
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Sixteen-year-old Jem and her servant struggle to keep things going at home in Trenton, New Jersey, when the family men join the war for independence from the British king.
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The journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce : a pilgrim boy
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Rinaldi, Ann .
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A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.
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Cassie
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Schurfranz, Vivian
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As a child, Cassie is abducted by Native Americans who raise her until Joshua, a fiery trapper comes and wants to bring her back to her original home in Three Pines.
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Do all Indians live in tipis? : questions and answers
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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
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970.004 DO
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Answers questions about Native Americans, including those related to identity, origins and history, animals and land, language and education, love and marriage, and culture.
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The boy who dared
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
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In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
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Navajo code talkers
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Santella, Andrew
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940.54 SAN
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Chronicles Native American life during World War II and contributions to the war effort.
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Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
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Bruchac, Joseph
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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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La petite four
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Scott, Regina
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In London in 1815, sixteen-year-old Lady Emily Southwell, who aspires to be an artist, enlists the aid of her three best friends from the Barnsley School for Young Ladies, in helping her out of an unwanted betrothal to a man she suspects of evil intentions, even as she is drawn to a mysterious stranger.
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Victorian England
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Swisher, Clarice
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On Order
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Queen Victoria's sixty-four-year reign identifies a fascinating period that transformed England into a democracy and a world power. When Victoria became queen, the industrial revolution had already launched technological and economic innovations that changed social and cultural life.
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Pirates! : the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates
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Rees, Celia .
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At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, set sail from Jamaica on a pirate vessel, hoping to escape from an arranged marriage and slavery.
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Under the black flag : the romance and the reality of life among the pirates
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Cordingly, David .
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For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age."
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Bloody Jack : being an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy
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Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.) .
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Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
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Pirates & Smugglers
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Butterfield, Moira
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On order
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Pirates and Smugglers is a swashbuckling introduction to the highwaymen and women of the seas -- from the cruel Cilician pirates who terrorized the Mediterranean more than 2,000 years ago to the well-organized and ruthless modern-day buccaneers who target supertankers on the South China Sea -- and the loot they plunder and smuggle.
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Trails of the iron horse; an informal history
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Russell, Don, ed.
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Spencer, LaVyrle.
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The cowboys,
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How the West was won
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L'Amour, Louis
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Resistance during the Holocaust
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Daniel's story
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Matas, Carol,
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Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
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Auschwitz
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Lawton, Clive .
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940.5317 LAW
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A description of what happened at Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland used during World War II by the Nazis to gather and murder many people, mostly Jews.
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Inside the walls of Alcatraz /
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Heaney, Frank,
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Choldenko, Gennifer .
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A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
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Saturnalia
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Fleischman, Paul .
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In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
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The serpent never sleeps : a novel of Jamestown and Pocahontas. Book
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O'Dell, Scott
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West against the wind
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Murrow, Liza Ketchum .
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Fourteen-year-old Abby seeks both her father and the secret of a handsome but mysterious boy during an arduous journey by wagon train from the middle of the country to the Pacific coast in 1850.
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Gentle tamers, The: women of the old wild West
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A lively, informal but soundly factual account of notable women who helped build the West in the mid to late 1800s. Traces how the reaction of these women to the frontier experience influenced the development of American mores and democracy.
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. The bone wars
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Lasky, Kathryn
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In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Indians prepare to go to war against the white man.
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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West
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Brown, Dee Alexander .
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This 1970 volume greatly changed the view of pioneers' westward advancement. Based largely on primary source materials, this volume details how white settlers forced Indian tribes off the plains, often simply by killing them. Though Hollywood and penny dreadfuls portrayed Indians as red devils who launched unprovoked attacks on innocent homesteaders, Brown's research shows that the opposite is closer to the truth.
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On the old western frontier
by Stein, R. Conrad .
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Describes the life of the pioneers who settled the forest lands lying between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River between 1790 and 1840.
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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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Shane
by Schaefer, Jack .
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Shane rides into a Wyoming valley in 1889 and becomes involved in a feud between big cattle dealers and homesteaders.
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Blood secret
by Lasky, Kathryn .
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Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition.
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The last girls of Pompeii
by Lasky, Kathryn .
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Twelve-year-old Julia knows that her physical deformity will keep her from a normal life, but counts on the continuing friendship of her life-long slave, Mitka, until they learn that both of their futures in first-century Pompeii are about to change for the worse.
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Wild prairie sky
by Michaels, Cheri .
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After their parents die of illness on the journey west, sixteen-year-old Betsy Monroe and her older sister Willa are left all alone on the Oregon Trail.
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Beyond the divide
by Lasky, Kathryn .
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In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.
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Life on the Oregon Trail
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Blackwood, Gary L.
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