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(0)Diane Wilson
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One day I realize that my entire back seat is filled with relatives who wonder why I'm not paying more attention to their part of the family story. . . . Sooner or later they all come up to the front seat and whisper stories in my ear."
Growing up in the 1950s in suburban Minneapolis, Diane Wilson had a family like everybody else's. Her Swedish American father was a salesman at Sears and her mother drove her brothers to baseball practice and
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Among the Dakota, the Beloved Child ceremony marked the special, tender affection that parents felt toward a child whose life had been threatened. In Beloved Child, author Diane Wilson explores the work of several modern Dakota people who are continuing to raise beloved children: Gabrielle Tateyuskanskan, an artist and poet; Clifford Canku, a spiritual leader and language teacher; Alameda Rocha, a boarding school survivor; Harley and Sue Eagle, Canadian...
Author
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
Author
Publisher
Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
52 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ella Cara Deloria loved to listen to her family tell stories in the Dakota language. She recorded many American Indian peoples' stories and languages and shared them with everyone. She helped protect her people's language for future generations and also wrote stories of her own. Her story is a Minnesota Native American life."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
1 unpaged volume : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this unique collaboration, four authors lyrically explore where they each come from-literally and metaphorically. Richly layered illustrations connect past and present in this accessible and visually striking look at history, family, and identity"--
9) Raven speak
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 854, the bold fourteen-year-old daughter of a Viking chieftain, aided by her old and thin but equally intrepid horse and an ancient, one-eyed seer, must find a way to keep her clan together and save them from starvation.
12) Firehorse
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
13) Tracks
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An Irish boy and a Chinese boy become friends, despite their mistrust and prejudices, while working on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1866.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato—where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gala presentation - May 5, 2007 and winning author interviews with: Taner Akcam, Dianne E. Gray, William Kent Krueger, Jude Nutter, Regula Russelle and CB Sherlock, Matthew Sanford, Julie Schumacher, Maureen Millea Smith, Diane Wilson.