The education of Little Tree
(Book - Regular Print)

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Published
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Physical Desc
viii, 216 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Camp Verde Unified School District - NF - Nonfiction Books
813.54 CAR
1 available
Cañon Elementary School - FIC - Fiction Books
CAR
1 available
Chino Valley High School - NF - Nonfiction Books
92 CAR
1 available

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Published
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 5.5, 11 Points
Lexile measure
890

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General Note
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, c1976. With new foreword.
Description
A Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's is remembered in generous, loving detail ... an unbelievably rich life.
Description
Forrest Carter, from the age of four or five, was inseparable from his part-Cherokee grandfather, who owned a farm and ran a country store nearby. Granpa called him Little Sprout; when he grew taller, he became Little Tree. From Granpa he absorbed the Cherokee ethic; to give love without expecting gratitude, to take from the land only what you need. Little Tree watches a mountain storm when Nature is birthing Spring, learns bird signs and wind songs and which crops to plant by the dark of the moon. He hears the true story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears, and why it is not the Indian who wept, but the watching white man. From a Jewish peddler who came every season to Granpa's store he learns a lesson in charity; from a sharecropper he learns to understand misplaced pride. He escapes death through Granpa's courage and confronts, for the first time, the hypocrisy and brutality of white Americans. Much of the lore passed from generation to generation by word of mouth is found in these stories in "The Education of Little Tree," autobiographical if not all factually accurate. For instance, Granma is based on family memories of Carter's great-great-great grandmother (Granpa's great-grandmother), who was a full Cherokee, combined with the author's own mother, who read Shakespeare to him when he was a child. But Granpa is all and forever true in this storyteller's memoir of a time that ended when Little Tree was ten and Granpa died.
Target Audience
890 L,Lexile
Target Audience
890L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader,Grades 9-12,5.5,11,SD,Quiz 7007,English non-fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,5.5,11,7007.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader,Grades 9-12,5.5,11,SD,Quiz 7007,English non-fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Awards
Abby award winner.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Carter, F. (1986). The education of Little Tree . University of New Mexico Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Carter, Forrest. 1986. The Education of Little Tree. University of New Mexico Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Carter, Forrest. The Education of Little Tree University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

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Carter, Forrest. The Education of Little Tree University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

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