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Trilogy describing the author's journey to Canada from Wyoming with a dream of owning a cattle ranch. In Grass beyond…
the Mountains, Richmond and his companions conquer the tortuous miles and carve out a space for themselves. Also includes Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and The Rancher Takes a Wife. Strong language and some violence. 1978Rabbit's snow dance: a traditional Iroquois story
By Joseph Bruchac, James Bruchac, Jeff Newman. 2012
A long-tailed rabbit who wants a nibble of the highest, tastiest leaves uses his special snow song in the summertime,…
despite the protests of the other animals. For preschool-grade 2. 2012The great and mighty Nikko!: a bilingual counting book
By Xavier Garza. 2015
El gran y poderoso Nikko! Edicion bilingue en ingles y espanol. Para ninos preescolares hasta segundo grado. Nikko's mother wants…
him to stop jumping on his bed, but he's not jumping on his bed, as he tried to convince her. Instead there are luchadors, masked wrestlers, trying to fight him one at a time. In the end, of course, Nikko is the winner: the great and mightly Nikko! Bilingual: English and Spanish. For preschool-grade 210 little ninjas
By Miranda Paul, Nate Wragg. 2016
Day dreamers: a journey of imagination
By Emily Winfield Martin. 2014
Little you
By Richard Van Camp, Julie Flett. 2013
Little Runner of the longhouse (I Can Read Bks.)
By Arnold Lobel, Betty Baker. 1962
Good night, Missouri (Good night our world series)
By Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper, Joe Veno. 2013
Introduces well-known features of Missouri, including The St. Louis Arch, The Kansas City Aquarium, the Mark Twain home in Hannibal,…
the Lake of the Ozarks, the Ozark Mountains, and Silver Dollar City. For preschool-grade 2Annie and the Old One
By Miska Miles, Peter Parnall, Patricia Miles Martin. 1985
Annie, a young Navajo girl, is upset thinking her grandmother could die. When her grandmother announces that she will return…
to the earth when the rug on the loom is finished, Annie tries to stop the weaving. For grades 3-6. Newbery Honor. 1971Hold up the sky: and other Indian tales from Texas and the Southern Plains
By Jane Louise Curry, James Watts. 2003
Twenty-six stories passed down through the generations from different tribes who inhabited the United States southwest plains. Includes brief information…
about each of the fourteen Native American storytelling tribes represented in this collection. For grades 4-7. 2003The wonderful sky boat: and other Native American tales of the Southeast
By Jane Louise Curry, James Watts. 2001
Collection of twenty-seven stories from the Catawba, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes among others, retold in modern English. A Hitchiti…
tale, "Heron and Hummingbird," explains why hummingbirds drink nectar rather than water. Includes notes about the original storytellers and their languages. For grades 4-7. 2001Turtle Island: tales of the Algonquian nations
By Jane Louise Curry, James Watts. 1999
Collection of twenty-seven tales with an introduction to Algonquian Indian culture; describes variations among the group's numerous tribes, which are…
found in the eastern United States and Canada. The title story recounts how a turtle's back became the Earth's foundation after a great flood. For grades 4-7. 1999Blue dawn, red earth: new Native American storytellers
By Clifford E. Trafzer. 1996
Thirty short stories by Native Americans from different tribal groups. Original tales created from personal experiences, like being sent to…
a government boarding school or moving away from the reservation. Other selections are based on traditional themes involving ghosts or people especially attuned to natureThe boy and the cloth of dreams
By James Mayhew, Jenny Koralek. 1994
There once was a little boy whose grandmother made a quilt of dreams for him when he was born. She…
had told his mother that the quilt would keep the dark night things away. But now the quilt has two holes in it, and suddenly the little boy is having bad dreams. His grandmother can mend the quilt, but first he must find the courage to bring her the threads she needs for mending. For preschool-grade 2Good night, Stella
By Emma Chichester Clark, Kate McMullan. 1994
Stella's father puts her to bed, but she can't sleep. She keeps calling to him with worries about vampire bats,…
eyeballs falling out, and not being able to stop swallowing. Finally her father tells her he is too tired to wait up for Stella's mother to come home from the movies, so wide-awake Stella offers to take his place. For preschool-grade 2Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird: Tales of the People (Tales of the People Ser. #2)
By Joseph Medicine Crow, Medicine Crow, Linda R. Martin, Joe Medicine Crow. 1998
In this retelling of a Crow Indian story, a hunter named Brave Wolf is abducted by a mother Thunderbird, who…
asks that he help save her chicks from a monster. A brief section of factual information about the Crow people, their language, and history follows the story. For grades 2-4One drowsy dragon
By Ethan Long. 2010
As one dragon tries to take a nap, his ten little dragons, in increasing numbers, disturb his sleep by making…
milk shakes, screaming at scary movies, and playing loud games. A One Book 4 Colorado finalist, this book is read by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. For preschool-grade 2Moon: a peek-through picture book
By Britta Teckentrup, Patricia Hegarty. 2018
Show me a sign (Show Me a Sign)
By Ann Clare LeZotte. 2020
1805. Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates…
in a shared sign language. But a scientist determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness decides that she makes the perfect live specimen--and kidnaps her. For grades 4-7. 2020Paddle-to-the-Sea: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Sandpiper books)
By Holling Clancy Holling. 1980
A First Nations boy sets a foot-long canoe afloat on Ontario's Lake Nipigon. As the little dugout drifts through the…
Great Lakes to the ocean, strangers honor the message carved in the wood: "Please put me back in water. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea." For grades 3-6. Caldecott Honor Book. 1941