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Conquista!
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Ronald Himler,Clyde Robert Bulla,Michael Syson |
At the time of Coronado's exploration for a fabled city of gold, a young Indian boy encounters his first horse. |
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When the great canoes came
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Mary Louise Clifford |
A seventeenth-century Pamunkey Indian describes how the coming of the English colonists has changed her life forever. |
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Anacaona, Golden Flower
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Edwidge Danticat |
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arriv… |
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Brendan the Navigator
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Jean Fritz |
Recounts St. Brendan's life and voyage to North America long before the Vikings arrived. |
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Morning Girl
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Michael Dorris |
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she w… |
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Leaving for America
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Roslyn Bresnick-Perry |
The author recalls her early years in a small Jewish town in western Russia and the last days there as she and her mother prepare to join her father in the United States. |
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Leif Eriksson
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Joanne Mattern |
Describes the life and accomplishments of Leif, son of Norseman Erik the Red, who led a group of Vikings from Greenland on a voyage which ended on the shores of North America. |
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Indio
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Sherry Garland |
Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border. |
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