Native Americans in Children's Literature

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Book cover for "Ghost Hawk"
Star rating for Ghost Hawk
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
Book cover for "Island of the Blue Dolphins"
Star rating for Island of the Blue Dolphins
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Book cover for "Julie of the wolves"
Star rating for Julie of the wolves
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Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Book cover for "Julie's wolf pack"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership.
Book cover for "Killer of enemies"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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"In a world that has barely survived an apocalypse that leaves it with pre-twentieth century technology, Lozen is a monster hunter for four tyrants who are holding her family hostage"--
Book cover for "The sign of the beaver"
Star rating for The sign of the beaver
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
In the late eighteenth century, eleven-year-old Matt befriends an Indian boy of the Beaver clan who helps him survive alone in the wilderness. Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.