Author: Doris E. Gill
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1491843411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This saga of intrigue, passion and adventure begin in 1859, just before the Civil War. Belinda Palmer, who is called Red Bird by the Cherokee Indians due to her constant wearing of read clothing, lives in a small harbor village in North Carolina. Burdened with being a beautiful girl, constantly an irresistible lure to the opposite sex, with great effort she maintains her virginity and dignity. The murder of her younger sister, the death of her mother, life is a challenge for Red Bird. The reader will be transported back to a life much the way the twenty first century has begun, albeit without today’s so-called conveniences. Belinda Palmer’s red clothing seems to be a symbol of her courage. No white flags of surrender for the Red Bird.
A Girl Called Red Bird
Author: Doris E. Gill
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1491843411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This saga of intrigue, passion and adventure begin in 1859, just before the Civil War. Belinda Palmer, who is called Red Bird by the Cherokee Indians due to her constant wearing of read clothing, lives in a small harbor village in North Carolina. Burdened with being a beautiful girl, constantly an irresistible lure to the opposite sex, with great effort she maintains her virginity and dignity. The murder of her younger sister, the death of her mother, life is a challenge for Red Bird. The reader will be transported back to a life much the way the twenty first century has begun, albeit without today’s so-called conveniences. Belinda Palmer’s red clothing seems to be a symbol of her courage. No white flags of surrender for the Red Bird.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1491843411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This saga of intrigue, passion and adventure begin in 1859, just before the Civil War. Belinda Palmer, who is called Red Bird by the Cherokee Indians due to her constant wearing of read clothing, lives in a small harbor village in North Carolina. Burdened with being a beautiful girl, constantly an irresistible lure to the opposite sex, with great effort she maintains her virginity and dignity. The murder of her younger sister, the death of her mother, life is a challenge for Red Bird. The reader will be transported back to a life much the way the twenty first century has begun, albeit without today’s so-called conveniences. Belinda Palmer’s red clothing seems to be a symbol of her courage. No white flags of surrender for the Red Bird.
Chasing Redbird
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061961310
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“Intriguing, delightful, and touching.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Creech’s best yet.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family’s house, she realized that things were about to change. It was her chance to finally make people notice her, and to have a place she could call her very own. But more than that, Zinny knew that the trail somehow held the key to all kinds of questions. And that the only way to understand her family, her Aunt Jessie’s death, and herself, was to find out where it went. From Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech comes a story of love, loss, and understanding, an intricately woven tale of a young girl who sets out in search of her place in the world—and discovers it in her own backyard. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061961310
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“Intriguing, delightful, and touching.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Creech’s best yet.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family’s house, she realized that things were about to change. It was her chance to finally make people notice her, and to have a place she could call her very own. But more than that, Zinny knew that the trail somehow held the key to all kinds of questions. And that the only way to understand her family, her Aunt Jessie’s death, and herself, was to find out where it went. From Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech comes a story of love, loss, and understanding, an intricately woven tale of a young girl who sets out in search of her place in the world—and discovers it in her own backyard. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
Red Bird Sings
Author: Gina Capaldi
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1467738131
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Ša willingly left her home at age eight to go to a boarding school in Indiana. But she soon found herself caught between two worlds—white and Native American. At school she missed her mother and her traditional life, but Zitkala-Ša found joy in music classes. "My wounded spirit soared like a bird as I practiced the piano and violin," she wrote. Her talent grew, and when she graduated, she became a music teacher, composer, and performer. Zitkala-Ša found she could also "sing" to help her people by writing stories and giving speeches. As an adult, she worked as an activist for Native American rights, seeking to build a bridge between cultures. The coauthors tell Zitkala-Ša’s life by weaving together pieces from her own stories. The artist's acrylic illustrations and collages of photos and primary source documents round out the vivid portrait of Zitkala-Ša, a frightened child whose spirit "would rise again, stronger and wiser for the wounds it had suffered."
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1467738131
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Ša willingly left her home at age eight to go to a boarding school in Indiana. But she soon found herself caught between two worlds—white and Native American. At school she missed her mother and her traditional life, but Zitkala-Ša found joy in music classes. "My wounded spirit soared like a bird as I practiced the piano and violin," she wrote. Her talent grew, and when she graduated, she became a music teacher, composer, and performer. Zitkala-Ša found she could also "sing" to help her people by writing stories and giving speeches. As an adult, she worked as an activist for Native American rights, seeking to build a bridge between cultures. The coauthors tell Zitkala-Ša’s life by weaving together pieces from her own stories. The artist's acrylic illustrations and collages of photos and primary source documents round out the vivid portrait of Zitkala-Ša, a frightened child whose spirit "would rise again, stronger and wiser for the wounds it had suffered."
Red Bird
Author: Barbara Mitchell
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Katie, also known as Red Bird, joins her family and other Indians at the annual powwow in southern Delaware, where they celebrate their Nanticoke heritage with music, dancing, and special foods.
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Katie, also known as Red Bird, joins her family and other Indians at the annual powwow in southern Delaware, where they celebrate their Nanticoke heritage with music, dancing, and special foods.
A Redbird Christmas
Author: Fannie Flagg
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 009949048X
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Oswald T. Campbell, Aged Fifty-Two, Down-And-Out In A Chicago Winter, Is Given Only Months To Live Unless He Moves South. He Finds Himself In The Small Town Of Lost River, Alabama, Where The Residents Are Friendly If Feud-Prone And Eccentric To A Fault. One Of Them, Roy, Keeps A Red Cardinal, A Once Wounded Bird Called Jack, In The Village Store. Patsy, A Sad, Sweet Little Kid With A Crippled Leg, From The Trailer Park Up In The Woods, Takes To Dropping By The Store - And Falls In Love With Jack. Flagg Takes Us On An Emotional Roller-Coaster Ride Through The Lives And Hearts Of An Engaging Crew Of Misfits, Fixers And Ordinary Good-Hearted Folk, Set Against The Vivid Natural Backdrop Of A Mellow Alabama Winter, Along The Riverside Where Birds And Fish Abound. Her Enchanting Story Culminates At Christmastide With Surprises And A Magical 'Redbird' Moment.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 009949048X
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Oswald T. Campbell, Aged Fifty-Two, Down-And-Out In A Chicago Winter, Is Given Only Months To Live Unless He Moves South. He Finds Himself In The Small Town Of Lost River, Alabama, Where The Residents Are Friendly If Feud-Prone And Eccentric To A Fault. One Of Them, Roy, Keeps A Red Cardinal, A Once Wounded Bird Called Jack, In The Village Store. Patsy, A Sad, Sweet Little Kid With A Crippled Leg, From The Trailer Park Up In The Woods, Takes To Dropping By The Store - And Falls In Love With Jack. Flagg Takes Us On An Emotional Roller-Coaster Ride Through The Lives And Hearts Of An Engaging Crew Of Misfits, Fixers And Ordinary Good-Hearted Folk, Set Against The Vivid Natural Backdrop Of A Mellow Alabama Winter, Along The Riverside Where Birds And Fish Abound. Her Enchanting Story Culminates At Christmastide With Surprises And A Magical 'Redbird' Moment.
Red Bird
Author: B. A. Crisp
Publisher: Quanta Chronicles
ISBN: 9780578513140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Native American culture, the Red Bird is a 'seer' or messenger from another realm. In Christianity, when a cardinal appears, angels are near. In BA Crisp's remarkable first novel, a Red Bird means redemption; for your sins, for anyone you've loved and lost, or from a secret you hope to keep. It's 1984 and Samantha Ryan Blake--human trafficking victim, unruly foster child--sees things: murder, crime...and sometimes...otherworldly 'beings'. She doesn't have a family. Not since her mother was institutionalized and her father went missing ten years ago in Vietnam. What she does have is a secret. Now she's been made an offer--to receive 'special tutoring' by a British couple-- on the grounds of a heavily guarded American nuclear reactor testing facility. Two facts seem certain: She faces prison if she refuses the offer--and she needs help. Sam's court file paints her as a promiscuous teenage thief with a high IQ--until Bennie, a very strange boy also living behind the gates, tells her she's not the "person" she thinks she is. To save herself and Earth, she's forced to embark on a personal and perilous journey that uncovers long-buried secrets about the world she thought she knew--secrets that stretch across generations and the universe, all the way to Ninmah's Portal, home of the Astral Weavers. Confronting her losses, Sam will be forced to relearn everything she thought she knew about herself, her family and this world. From rural Midwest Ohio to the upper echelons of government controlled "unacknowledged special access projects" and beyond, Red Bird explores--with sharp insight and fierce humor--the resilience of the human spirit, even during times of political chaos.
Publisher: Quanta Chronicles
ISBN: 9780578513140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Native American culture, the Red Bird is a 'seer' or messenger from another realm. In Christianity, when a cardinal appears, angels are near. In BA Crisp's remarkable first novel, a Red Bird means redemption; for your sins, for anyone you've loved and lost, or from a secret you hope to keep. It's 1984 and Samantha Ryan Blake--human trafficking victim, unruly foster child--sees things: murder, crime...and sometimes...otherworldly 'beings'. She doesn't have a family. Not since her mother was institutionalized and her father went missing ten years ago in Vietnam. What she does have is a secret. Now she's been made an offer--to receive 'special tutoring' by a British couple-- on the grounds of a heavily guarded American nuclear reactor testing facility. Two facts seem certain: She faces prison if she refuses the offer--and she needs help. Sam's court file paints her as a promiscuous teenage thief with a high IQ--until Bennie, a very strange boy also living behind the gates, tells her she's not the "person" she thinks she is. To save herself and Earth, she's forced to embark on a personal and perilous journey that uncovers long-buried secrets about the world she thought she knew--secrets that stretch across generations and the universe, all the way to Ninmah's Portal, home of the Astral Weavers. Confronting her losses, Sam will be forced to relearn everything she thought she knew about herself, her family and this world. From rural Midwest Ohio to the upper echelons of government controlled "unacknowledged special access projects" and beyond, Red Bird explores--with sharp insight and fierce humor--the resilience of the human spirit, even during times of political chaos.
Lady of Chʻiao Kuo
Author: Laurence Yep
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439164832
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439164832
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
Redbird at Rockefeller Center
Author: Peter Maloney
Publisher: Dial
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Kate is heartbroken when her favorite tree is cut down and shipped off to Rockefeller Center for use at Christmas, along with the bird who has been living in the tree.
Publisher: Dial
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Kate is heartbroken when her favorite tree is cut down and shipped off to Rockefeller Center for use at Christmas, along with the bird who has been living in the tree.
The Flight of Red Bird
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1623344832
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Taken from her family on the Yankton Sioux Reservation at the age of eight and sent to a school far from home, Gertrude is forced to become "civilized"--to give up her moccasins, her long hair, and her language, and to renounce her Sioux heritage. As an adult, she renames herself Zitkala-¬Sa, which means "Red Bird," and devotes her life to fighting for justice for Native Americans. Her powerful and memorable story, told in her own words from letters and diaries, will inspire anyone who has ever dreamed of making a difference.
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1623344832
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Taken from her family on the Yankton Sioux Reservation at the age of eight and sent to a school far from home, Gertrude is forced to become "civilized"--to give up her moccasins, her long hair, and her language, and to renounce her Sioux heritage. As an adult, she renames herself Zitkala-¬Sa, which means "Red Bird," and devotes her life to fighting for justice for Native Americans. Her powerful and memorable story, told in her own words from letters and diaries, will inspire anyone who has ever dreamed of making a difference.
Buffalo Bird Girl
Author: S. D. Nelson
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1613124872
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Buffalo Bird Girl (ca. 1839-1932) was a member of the Hidatsa, a Native American community that lived in permanent villages along the Missouri River on the Great Plains. Like other girls her age, Buffalo Bird Girl learned the ways of her people through watching and listening, and then by doing. She helped plant crops in the spring, tended the fields through the summer, and in autumn joined in the harvest. She learned to prepare animal skins, dry meat, and perform other duties. There was also time for playing games with friends and training her dog. When her family visited the nearby trading post, there were all sorts of fascinating things to see from the white man’s settlements in the East. Award-winning author and artist S. D. Nelson (Standing Rock Sioux) captures the spirit of Buffalo Bird Girl by interweaving the actual words and stories of Buffalo Bird Woman with his artwork and archival photographs. Backmatter includes a history of the Hidatsa and a timeline.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1613124872
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Buffalo Bird Girl (ca. 1839-1932) was a member of the Hidatsa, a Native American community that lived in permanent villages along the Missouri River on the Great Plains. Like other girls her age, Buffalo Bird Girl learned the ways of her people through watching and listening, and then by doing. She helped plant crops in the spring, tended the fields through the summer, and in autumn joined in the harvest. She learned to prepare animal skins, dry meat, and perform other duties. There was also time for playing games with friends and training her dog. When her family visited the nearby trading post, there were all sorts of fascinating things to see from the white man’s settlements in the East. Award-winning author and artist S. D. Nelson (Standing Rock Sioux) captures the spirit of Buffalo Bird Girl by interweaving the actual words and stories of Buffalo Bird Woman with his artwork and archival photographs. Backmatter includes a history of the Hidatsa and a timeline.