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"Promise to remember me" was the only thing that the mysterious and beautiful woman had ever said to him. She had appeared from nowhere one day, when the hunter had been alone during the long winter months. Just as suddenly she has disappeared again, but the hunter was sure we would keep his promise and see her once again. Join world-renowned storyteller Joseph Bruchac and award-winning illustrator Bill Farnsworth, as they recount this ancient and...
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The author of Skeleton Man returns with another chilling tale. What kind of sinister creature lurks in the dark pond in the forest? Armie can feel it calling to him... and he suspects the answer may lie in the legends of his Shawnee ancestors. Joseph Bruchac, the award-winning author of Skeleton Man, puts a contemporary spin on Native American lore to create a terrifying tale of monsters and darkness.
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Every monster can be overcome if you know the right way to go about it. Maddy has always loved scary stories, especially the spooky legends of her Native American ancestors. But that was before she heard about the Whisperer in the Dark, the most frightening legend of all. Now there's an icy voice at the other end of the phone and a chilling message left on Maddy's door. Suddenly this ancient tale is becoming just a bit too real. Once, twice, three...
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It's not over, that voice says. Some dreams, rabbit, are like this one I just sent you. They are messages and warnings. And even though it sends a shiver down my spine, I understand what this message, this warning, means. Skeleton Man will return. Molly thought she'd put her traumatic past behind her when she escaped from Skeleton Man last year. She rescued her parents and tried to get her life back to the way it used to be. She thought her family...
5) Bearwalker
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As a member of the Mohawk Bear Clan, Baron has always been fascinated by bears-their gentle strength and untamed power. But the Bearwalker legend, passed down by his ancestors, tells of a different kind of creature-a terrible mix of human and animal that looks like a bear but is really a bloodthirsty monster. The tale never seemed to be more than a scary story. Until now. During a class camping trip deep in the Adirondacks, Baron comes face-to-face...
6) Skeleton Man
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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A chilling middle grade novel featuring a brave young girl, missing parents, and a terrifying stranger, based on a Native American legend.
Molly's father, who grew up on the Mohawk Reserve of Akwesasne, always had the best scary stories. One of her favorites was the legend of Skeleton Man, a gruesome tale about a man with such insatiable hunger he ate his own flesh before devouring those around him.
But ever since her parents mysteriously vanished,...
7) Pocahontas
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In 1607, when John Smith and his "Coatmen" arrive in Powhatan to begin settling the colony of Virginia, their relations with the village's inhabitants are anything but warm. Pocahontas, the beloved daughter of the Powhatan chief, is just eleven, but this astute young girl plays a fateful, peaceful role in the destinies of two peoples.
Drawing from the personal journals of John Smith, American Book Award winner Joseph Bruchac reveals an important...
8) The Way
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Cody LeBeau is an American Indian boy starting high school with the usual trepidation. His Uncle Pat, an accomplished martial arts sensei, shows Cody "the way" through the maze of adolescent doubt and into manhood.
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Abenaki children's book icon Joseph Bruchac tells the stirring history of the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans, which established a precedent for Indian activism
On November 20, 1969, a group of 89 Native Americans-most of them young activists in their twenties, led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others-crossed San Francisco Bay under the cover of darkness. They called themselves the "Indians of All Tribes." Their objective...
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