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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Conquista! Conquista! 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. OL15099721W
When the great canoes came When the great canoes came Mary Louise Clifford A seventeenth-century Pamunkey Indian describes how the coming of the English colonists has changed her life forever. OL17898170W
Anacaona, Golden Flower Anacaona, Golden Flower 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… OL1806959W
Brendan the Navigator Brendan the Navigator Jean Fritz Recounts St. Brendan's life and voyage to North America long before the Vikings arrived. OL1931481W
Morning Girl Morning Girl 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… OL2625575W
Leaving for America Leaving for America 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. OL4280798W
Leif Eriksson Leif Eriksson 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. OL501527W
Indio Indio 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. OL74584W