'Anderson' s imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. Anderson' s mesmerizing novel takes place at a time when Patriots battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers - but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that learns the hideous nature of their experiments, and his own chilling role them. Now in paperback, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. The American Girl series about Kaya, a Native girl living in the Pacific Northwest in the 1760s, is a good fictional option as well.Book Description Paperback. Mann’s book, Before Columbus, spans both North and South America, and goes way, way further back than Colonial America, but is notable for being a book for kids about Native life that doesn’t center around interactions with settlers. But if you want an account of Native culture outside of contact with whites in early America, you’re going to be hard-pressed to find an example.
There are, it should be noted, lots of wonderful options by Native authors that deal with more recent histories. ‘Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491’īooks about Native history for kids can be maddeningly limiting: There are a handful of reference books that go up to present day, but most books, whether fiction or nonfiction, that are set before the 20th century cluster around a few well-known events and individuals (like Squanto, Sacajawea, and Pocahontas).
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