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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland.
They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides—the Apaches and the white invaders—blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers,...
They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides—the Apaches and the white invaders—blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers,...
Author
Series
Apache wars novel volume 1
Publisher
A Signet book
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Serving as scouts for the Arizona cavalry outpost Fort Hell, Yakima Henry and Seth Barksdale, on orders from Colonel Ephraim Alexander, lead a search party to the Shadow Montanas in Mexico where they come up against a ruthless warrior queen, who might be the colonel's long-lost daughter.
8) Hombre
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Russell, a young man nicknamed Hombre by the Apaches who raised him, has a deadly confrontation with a determined gang of stagecoach robbers.
10) Inferno
Author
Series
The loner volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drifting into New Mexico Territory, Conrad Morgan, The Loner is turning his back on the past. Then he rides up on a wagon train of pioneers{u2014}and straight into an inferno of death and revenge{u2026} Out Of The Heat. Into The Fire{u2026} Led by a charismatic fool, a group of pioneers are crossing Apache territory, blind to the danger around them. The Loner would ignore the passing pilgrims if it weren{u2019}t for a beautiful woman. Then, when he...
11) Hombre
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
A decade-long project by the Academy Award-nominated actor and best-selling creator of The Lost Boy reimagines the experiences of Cochise, a young Geronimo and the war-torn Apache nation of 1872 as their culture is decimated in the aftermath of an attack on the Mexican village of Azripe.
15) Apache
Author
Series
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of the Apache people, including their home life, religion, and first contact with European settlers.
16) Hondo
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Hondo Lane is a despatch rider for the cavalry who encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. Vittorio captures Hondo and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In...
17) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the truth behind the myths and rumors that enshroud the famous Apache's life, describing how the warrior escaped capture, what his training was like, and explains why he was feared by both whites and other Apaches.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the famed Apache warrior, from his youth and the tragic massacre of his family to his vengeful actions against the unfaithful American government in retaliation for their cruelty to his people.
Author
Series
Publisher
Two Roads West
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Get ready for an in depth look at the most famous Indian in the world and how he got there. Bob Boze Bell's controversial new book on "The Illustrated Life & Times of Geronimo" lays out the long and bloody path of Goyathlay (He Who Yawns) from warrior to celebrity to legend. With hundreds-yes hundreds!-of never before seen images, great maps and top notch scholarship, this is the book you need if you want to know the truth about Geronimo
20) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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