Saltypie : a Choctaw journey from darkness into light
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Author
Tingle, Tim.
Contributors
Clarkson, Karen.
Published
El Paso, TX : Cinco Puntos Press, [2010].
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Status
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Picture Books
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Published
El Paso, TX : Cinco Puntos Press, [2010].
Edition
1st ed.
Street Date
1005.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
LG
Level 3.7, 1 Points

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Description
Choctaw author Tim Tingle tells the story of his famly's move from Oklahome Choctaw country to Pasadena, Texas. Spanning fifty years, the book describes the problems encounted by his Choctaw grandmother from her orphan days at an Indian boarding school to hardships she met at her new home on the Texas Gult Coast. It is the story of one family's efforts to honor the past while struggling to gain a foothold in modern America.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,LG,3.7,0.5,137951.

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LC Subjects
Biographies.
Other Subjects
Blindness -- Texas -- Pasadena.
Choctaw Indians -- Biography.
Choctaw Indians -- Crimes against -- Texas -- Pasadena.
Grandmothers -- Texas -- Biography.
Pasadena (Tex.) -- Biography.
Tingle, Tim -- Childhood and youth.
Tingle, Tim -- Family.
Wisdom.