A boy called slow /
Bruchac, Joseph (1942-)
A boy called slow / Joseph Bruchac Illustrated by Rocco Baviera - 1994 - New York : The Putnam&Grosset, 1994. - 31 pages : Color illustrations ; 26 cm
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he True Story of Sitting Bull from multi-award-winning author Joseph Bruchac. Anxious to be given a name as strong and brave as that of his father, a proud Lakota Sioux grows into manhood, acting with careful deliberation, determination, and bravery, which eventually earned him his proud new name: Sitting Bull. An ALA Notable Book "Being named Slow and growing up in the shadow of a great warrior hardly dwarfed the prospects of this protagonist: he grew up to be Sitting Bull. Bruchac's sensitively told story of Sitting Bull's coming-of-age reassures young boys that success comes through effort, not birth." --Booklist
760L
Lexile
R
Raz-Plus
9780698116160
Non-fiction--Native Americans
Picture book
E99.D1
978.004975
A boy called slow / Joseph Bruchac Illustrated by Rocco Baviera - 1994 - New York : The Putnam&Grosset, 1994. - 31 pages : Color illustrations ; 26 cm
R
he True Story of Sitting Bull from multi-award-winning author Joseph Bruchac. Anxious to be given a name as strong and brave as that of his father, a proud Lakota Sioux grows into manhood, acting with careful deliberation, determination, and bravery, which eventually earned him his proud new name: Sitting Bull. An ALA Notable Book "Being named Slow and growing up in the shadow of a great warrior hardly dwarfed the prospects of this protagonist: he grew up to be Sitting Bull. Bruchac's sensitively told story of Sitting Bull's coming-of-age reassures young boys that success comes through effort, not birth." --Booklist
760L
Lexile
R
Raz-Plus
9780698116160
Non-fiction--Native Americans
Picture book
E99.D1
978.004975