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Author
Publisher
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
A little girl tells how her grandmother makes special teas and warm drinks for her and her little brother when they are not feeling well.
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1982.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive.
3) Skull water
Author
Publisher
Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu--the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army--spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness,...
Author
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
"From Dene artist and bioethicist Lisa Boivin comes this healing story of hope, dreams, and the special bond between grandfather and granddaughter. When a little girl dreams about a bear, her grandfather explains how we connect with the knowledge of our ancestors through dreams. Bear, Hawk, Caribou, and Wolf all have teachings to share to help us live a good life. But when Grampa gets sick and falls into a coma, the little girl must lean on his teachings...