Book
Sweetgrass Basket
- Published
- 2005
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 243
- Words
- 31627
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.0
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 930L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–13
In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (established in 1879 to educate Native Americans) as they try to assimilate into white culture, and one of them is falsely accused of stealing.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780525475477
- ISBN-10
- 0525475478
Tags
ALSC NotablesBehavior-StealingCommunity Life-SchoolFamily Life-SistersHistorical FictionHistory-American/U.S. HistoryPeople-Indigenous Peoples (All)PoetrySocial Issues-Prejudice & Discrimination