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Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Walking Turtle, of the Lenni-Lenape tribe, is close to his younger cousin, Little Talk, who has difficulty walking and worries about what will become of him when the time comes for Walking Turtle to leave his childhood friends to begin training at warrior school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
As part of an agreement to keep peace, whites are insisting that captives who have been living with the Indians be returned to their white settlements. True True Son, fifteen years old, has lived with the Delaware tribe since being captured as a baby.
10) Callaghen
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
The veteran Indian fighter takes command of a desert scout patrol when the lieutenant is killed in a Mohave attack.
Callaghen's business is soldiering. For twenty years he'd fought all over the world, from China to the deserts of California; now he's a private in the U.S. Cavalry, poorly paid, his enlistment about to run out. He's ready to move on ... until he comes across a startling discovery: a treasure map belonging to a dead lieutenant who may...
11) Dark Shade
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania.
13) The Lenapes
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Lenape (also known as Delaware) Indians.
Author
Series
Doctor Fenimore mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When cardiologist Dr. Andrew Fenimore isn't mending weak hearts, he's solving crimes in Philadelphia's Society Hill. While helping a teenage boy bury his pet, he discovers a corpse of a recently deceased young woman who was buried sitting up and facing east, traditional among Lenape Indians.
Author
Publisher
Lee and Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Today when a Lenape Indian girl ventures to the stream to fish for shad, she knows that another girl did the same generations before her. Through the cycle of the seasons, what is important has remained: being with family, knowing when berries are ripe for picking, listening to stories in a warm home. Told by Traditional Sister and Contemporary Sister, each from her own time, this is a book about tradition and about change. Then and now are not so...
Author
Series
Hester's hunt for home volume 1
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket. Kate and Hans cherish Hester, despite the pointed question of Hans's mother--'What...
Author
Series
Hester's hunt for home volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hester, the Native American who was rescued as an infant by an Amish couple, now lives in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She shares a house with Bappie King, another Amish woman, living their independent lives in the fast-growing mid-18th-century city. Bappie runs a highly successful stand at the downtown farmers market; Hester is Bappie's assistant when she isn't out in the city nursing desperately sick children and their impoverished parents...