Tingle, Tim
Summary: When his mother leaves, sixteen-year-old Bobby, a Choctaw, begins living in a hole in his backyard to avoid his abusive father, and is surprised to find friends and neighbors willing to help him. Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TINCoulson, Art
Summary: Eleven-year-old Cherokee Zach Feather is going on his first pheasant hunting trip in Oklahoma with his parents, his first ever bird dog (Koda), and his grandfather's shotgun; but when the hunt gets started he discovers that there is a lot more to hunting than he realized and he needs to learn patience--if he survives his encounter with a very annoyed rattlesnake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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Summary: Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls. Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance. Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection, from werewolves to vampires to zombies, all the time-worn horror baddies are there. But so are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROGBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRUBruchac, Joseph
Summary: Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BRUCoulson, Art
Summary: Excited to go on his first family hunting trip, twelve-year-old Rodney learns Cherokee traditions, gun safety, and patience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COUHobson, Brandon
Summary: Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: JFIC HOBHunter, Faith.
Summary: "The Vampire Council of New Orleans has hired Jane to hunt and kill one of their own who has broken sacred ancient rules. But she quickly realizes that in a community that is thousands of years old, loyalties run deep. With the help of her witch best friend and local vigilantes, Jane finds herself caught between bitter rivalries--and closer than ever to the secret origin of the entire vampire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNHerman, Kathy.
Summary: "Brill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar eighteen-year career on the Memphis police force...Before she even has time to unpack her boxes, people start disappearing. Lots of them. To complicate matters, a local legend has many residents believing that the cause is unearthly--tied to red "shadows", or spirits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERClapsaddle, Annette Saunooke
Summary: "Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fireside Industries Books, and imprint of the University Press of Kentucky 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAGlancy, Diane.
Summary: Maritole, one of the many thousands of Cherokees who were uprooted from their homes after being betrayed by the U.S. government, struggles to survive on the forced march along the Trail of Tears, while searching to understand why this has happened to her people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
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Summary: As part of his thirteenth birthday Jimmy Benge is spending a week ice fishing with his friend, Ryan, in northern Minnesota at his Cherokee family's lakeside home; one day they get permission to go out further on the lake to try for Northern pike, and Jimmy catches a beauty--but a sudden snow squall turns the situation dangerous and as the boys pack up to make their way back, Uncle Kenny's ATV...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COUHobson, Brandon
Summary: "A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBFrazier, Charles
Summary: At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRARogers, Andrea L.
Summary: Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROGFoster, Sharon Ewell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOSCarter, Forrest.
Summary: First published in 1976, this autobiography contains Forrest Carter's--Little Tree's--remembrances of life with his Eastern Cherokee Hill country grandparents in the 1930s. There are 21 chapters, recounting humorous and serious episodes from a 5-year period and dealing with the themes of growing up, Indian life and values, family relationships, and the relationship of man and the earth. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARConley, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONConley, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Evans 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONFrazier, Charles
Summary: At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACoulson, Art
Summary: "Bo wants to find the perfect container to show off his traditional marbles for the Cherokee National Holiday in this exploration of volume and capacity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COUVerble, Margaret
Summary: "Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VERCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERDe Castrique, Mark.
Summary: "When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, finds his dual occupations collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro's most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy Panther leads a protest. Words and fists fly. When Panther turns up executed on the grave of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2014