youths' writings, american

Forced to leave their home in the Smokey Mountains and settle in Oklahoma, a Cherokee family finds little success growing corn until they pray to Se-lu the Corn Maiden.

A young Cherokee boy learning to hunt deer finds that the secret of life is to give all you can and to take only what you need.

A collection of fiction stories by students in eighth grade, focusing on the issues teens face in the period between the end of middle school and the beginning of high school.

When an accident threatens his future as a ceremonial dancer, Tommy Falling follows his grandmother's advice to seek healing through a difficult Cherokee ritual.

When her favorite uncle calmly announces that he is dying, Jamie begins to reflect on the Cherokee wisdom circle of life, death, and birth.

When his grandmother tells him about the Little People, Ganseti, a young Indian boy, searches a dark cave in his quest for the truth behind her story.

Laura, a Cherokee girl who lives with her beloved grandmother, faces the reality of an old legend about the owl when her grandmother becomes ill.

When Jenny experiences a disturbing dream, her grandmother explains that through it one of the Old Ones wants to talk to her about her path of destiny.

Allison Martin and her friends discover a clue that was overlooked by the police during their investigation on the theft of Allison's neighbor's car, and after taking on the case themselves, Alison and company infiltrate the skateboarding subculture and uncover a group of car thieves that have connections to organized crime.