Thomas King
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A force of over 90 state troopers, 100 SRS workers and nurses assembled near the sleepy, little village of Island Pond, Vermont. It was the dawn of the infamous Island Pond Raid. At 6AM on the frosty morning the assault on the Northeast Kingdom community church began. 112 children were taken into police custody that morning. However Judge Frank Mahady would rule that the raid was "grossly illegal" and return all the children to their parents. "People...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
In this book, the author offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. In the process, he refashions old stories about historical events and figures. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada-U.S. border, he debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Coyote is having a solstice party, when a little girl arrives and leads the party-goers through the woods to a mall, coyote shops with abandon and discovers it's not the same when you actually have to pay for them.
4) Borders
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot.