Forrest Carter
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
A Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's is remembered in generous, loving detail ... an unbelievably rich life.
Forrest Carter, from the age of four or five, was inseparable from his part-Cherokee grandfather, who owned a farm and ran a country store nearby. Granpa called him Little Sprout; when he grew taller, he became Little Tree. From Granpa he absorbed the Cherokee ethic; to give love without expecting gratitude, to take from the land only what you...
Author
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
The white man had burned their land, raped their women, and slaughtered their children.He had made them a nation of slaves, and those he could not enslave, he promised to destroy.The Apache had one hope: vengeance. Out of the scattered remnants of the Apache tribes rose a man whose cunning, ferocity, and genuis for warfare would make him their leader in a last tragic struggle for survival.The Apache gave him their arms, their strength, and their...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
After avenging his family's brutal murder by Union Forces in the Civil War, Missouri farmer Josey Wales is on the lam, pursued by a pack of killers. He travels westward alone, but a ragtag group of outcasts is drawn to him, and Wales can't leave his motley surrogate family unprotected.