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1) Tantalize
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Tink, tink, tink, tink, sang cone-shaped jingles sewn to Grandma Wolfe's dress. Jenna's heart beats to the brum, brum, brum, brum of the powwow drum as she daydreams about the clinking song of her grandma's jingle dancing. Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been shared by generations of women in her family, and she hopes to dance at the next powwow. But she has a problem -- how will her dress sing if it has no jingles?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
5) Eternal
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
When Miranda's guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired...
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start. Outgoing Riley misses her Muscogee cousins but is sure that she and Maya will be instant BFFs. Meanwhile, introvert Maya misses her parents, on active duty in Japan, and just wants some space to herself. At school, Maya joins Robotics Club and Riley bonds with fellow gymnasts. Just when they start to feel at home, their...
9) Blessed
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Even as teenaged Quincie Morris adjusts to her appetites as a neophyte vampire, she must clear her true love, the hybrid-werewolf Kieren, of murder charges; thwart the apocalyptic ambitions of Bradley Sanguini, the vampire-chef who "blessed" her; and keep her dead parents' restaurant up and running before she loses her own soul.
10) Indian shoes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp.
12) Feral curse
Author
Series
Feral volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
The adopted daughter of two respectable human parents, Kayla is a werecat in the closet. All she knows is the human world. When she comes out to her boyfriend, tragedy ensues, and her determination to know and embrace her heritage grows. Help appears in the lithe form of sexy male werecat Yoshi, backed up by Aimee and Clyde, as the four set out to solve the mystery of a possessed antique carousel while fielding miscast magic, obsessive strangers,...
13) Santa knows
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
Description
Armed with the facts, young Alfie sets out to prove to the world that Santa Claus does not exist but no one pays attention, especially his sister Noelle, whose only request of the man in red is a nicer big brother.
