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		By: Melissa Taylor		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://imaginationsoup.net/historical-books-westward-expansion/comment-page-1/#comment-515826&quot;&gt;Frances Schoonmaker&lt;/a&gt;.

Thanks for sharing about this book!]]></description>
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<p>Thanks for sharing about this book!</p>
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		By: Melissa Taylor		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://imaginationsoup.net/historical-books-westward-expansion/comment-page-1/#comment-515826&quot;&gt;Frances Schoonmaker&lt;/a&gt;.

I&#039;d love to learn more -- if you have review copies including a Kindle file, let me know at melissa@imaginationsoup.net. Thanks!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://imaginationsoup.net/historical-books-westward-expansion/comment-page-1/#comment-515826">Frances Schoonmaker</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d love to learn more &#8212; if you have review copies including a Kindle file, let me know at <a href="mailto:melissa@imaginationsoup.net">melissa@imaginationsoup.net</a>. Thanks!</p>
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		By: Frances Schoonmaker		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I appreciate  your excellent list. I know teachers search for helpful materials to ignite real interest.  Perhaps you&#039;d like to add my book, The Black Alabaster Box, Schoonmaker (Auctus, 2019) ?  A free guide for teachers is available on my website: www.fschoonmaker.com  
It had been quiet along the Santa Fe Trail for more than a year when the Stokes Company set out for California, the Willis family among them. A reluctant traveler, young Grace Willis longs for her fortunate, safe, and comfortable life at home. Just as she is learning to negotiate life in a wagon-train, Grace is kidnapped by fellow travelers and taken into Oklahoma Territory. She must decide if she will cave in to despair or muster the courage to run away and search for her parents. Grace finds help in unlikely places. She discovers that there really is such a thing as magic, and there are some things only a child can do.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I appreciate  your excellent list. I know teachers search for helpful materials to ignite real interest.  Perhaps you&#8217;d like to add my book, The Black Alabaster Box, Schoonmaker (Auctus, 2019) ?  A free guide for teachers is available on my website: <a href="http://www.fschoonmaker.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.fschoonmaker.com</a><br />
It had been quiet along the Santa Fe Trail for more than a year when the Stokes Company set out for California, the Willis family among them. A reluctant traveler, young Grace Willis longs for her fortunate, safe, and comfortable life at home. Just as she is learning to negotiate life in a wagon-train, Grace is kidnapped by fellow travelers and taken into Oklahoma Territory. She must decide if she will cave in to despair or muster the courage to run away and search for her parents. Grace finds help in unlikely places. She discovers that there really is such a thing as magic, and there are some things only a child can do.</p>
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		By: Melissa Taylor		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2018 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://imaginationsoup.net/historical-books-westward-expansion/comment-page-1/#comment-443376&quot;&gt;Nick&lt;/a&gt;.

You are a wealth of information on this topic, thank you! It&#039;s so interesting to reflect on this. We readers often read for plot with no idea whether or not we&#039;re reading something that is historically inaccurate or racially bias. As a book reviewer, I am seeing that I can do a better job after I read with some research before I recommend a book based on plot alone. Thanks, again, Nick!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://imaginationsoup.net/historical-books-westward-expansion/comment-page-1/#comment-443376">Nick</a>.</p>
<p>You are a wealth of information on this topic, thank you! It&#8217;s so interesting to reflect on this. We readers often read for plot with no idea whether or not we&#8217;re reading something that is historically inaccurate or racially bias. As a book reviewer, I am seeing that I can do a better job after I read with some research before I recommend a book based on plot alone. Thanks, again, Nick!</p>
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		By: Nick		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 16:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://imaginationsoup.net/historical-books-westward-expansion/comment-page-1/#comment-443254&quot;&gt;Melissa Taylor&lt;/a&gt;.

Thank you for getting back to me! 
The only other title for me at least was The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming by J. Anderson Coats. The author just doesn&#039;t handle the native content very well which is disappointing. There were points that were great (like Jane learning the history of Chinook, a language of the people in Seattle along with a few phrases, and the explanation that there are many different Native languages ) but there was many parts that were important to the book and little references that hinged on a knowledge of Native history and Washington history, something a lot children and adults reading wouldn&#039;t have. Coats simply didn&#039;t do a very good job explaining that to the audience. 
I haven&#039;t read Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart, but I&#039;ve heard really good things so I&#039;m excited. As for more titles I&#039;ve found
Evangelina Takes Flight by Diana J. Noble 
The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich (Further along The Birchbark House series, but specifically deals with westward expansion)
Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell (an older title, but still in print at Birchbark Books)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://imaginationsoup.net/historical-books-westward-expansion/comment-page-1/#comment-443254">Melissa Taylor</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you for getting back to me!<br />
The only other title for me at least was The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming by J. Anderson Coats. The author just doesn&#8217;t handle the native content very well which is disappointing. There were points that were great (like Jane learning the history of Chinook, a language of the people in Seattle along with a few phrases, and the explanation that there are many different Native languages ) but there was many parts that were important to the book and little references that hinged on a knowledge of Native history and Washington history, something a lot children and adults reading wouldn&#8217;t have. Coats simply didn&#8217;t do a very good job explaining that to the audience.<br />
I haven&#8217;t read Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart, but I&#8217;ve heard really good things so I&#8217;m excited. As for more titles I&#8217;ve found<br />
Evangelina Takes Flight by Diana J. Noble<br />
The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich (Further along The Birchbark House series, but specifically deals with westward expansion)<br />
Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell (an older title, but still in print at Birchbark Books)</p>
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		By: Melissa Taylor		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 13:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://imaginationsoup.net/historical-books-westward-expansion/comment-page-1/#comment-443221&quot;&gt;Nick&lt;/a&gt;.

Thanks for your comment and sharing these titles! Other than Little House, what other book did you have a concern about?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://imaginationsoup.net/historical-books-westward-expansion/comment-page-1/#comment-443221">Nick</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks for your comment and sharing these titles! Other than Little House, what other book did you have a concern about?</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 03:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your list is pretty interesting as usual, but with some of these books a serious discussion of racism (particularly towards Native Americans and Black people) is a necessity with the children reading these .  
The Little House in the Prairie series is the big one that comes to mind. The phrase &quot;The only good Indian is a dead Indian&quot; is  a repeated mantra throughout all the books, mostly from Ma. Pa also dresses in blackface on page 258 in Little Town on the Prairie . Debbie Reese does a really good break down of all this on her blog (https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com)
Some additional titles to consider from the perspectives of others during that time period. . 
On This Long Journey: The Journal of Jesse Smoke by Joseph Bruchac
The Journal of Joshua Loper by Walter Dean Myers
How I Became A Ghost by Tim Tingle
Sadly, it&#039;s a short list, but hopefully more diverse books will be written about the topic at large in the near future.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your list is pretty interesting as usual, but with some of these books a serious discussion of racism (particularly towards Native Americans and Black people) is a necessity with the children reading these .<br />
The Little House in the Prairie series is the big one that comes to mind. The phrase &#8220;The only good Indian is a dead Indian&#8221; is  a repeated mantra throughout all the books, mostly from Ma. Pa also dresses in blackface on page 258 in Little Town on the Prairie . Debbie Reese does a really good break down of all this on her blog (<a href="https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com</a>)<br />
Some additional titles to consider from the perspectives of others during that time period. .<br />
On This Long Journey: The Journal of Jesse Smoke by Joseph Bruchac<br />
The Journal of Joshua Loper by Walter Dean Myers<br />
How I Became A Ghost by Tim Tingle<br />
Sadly, it&#8217;s a short list, but hopefully more diverse books will be written about the topic at large in the near future.</p>
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