James Fenimore Cooper
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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Description
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander...
3) The pioneers
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Natty Bumppo, now on the threshold of old age, finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed becomes private property and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature.
5) The prairie
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The sequel to 'The Pioneers' finds Natty going West and opposing the destruction of the land of the animals." "Presents the third in a series of novels in which frontiersman Natty Bumppo, nearing the end of his life, sets off for new adventure in the region of the Great Lakes."
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
The Pathfinder (1840), Cooper's most picturesque novel and the fourth of the five Leatherstocking Tales, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes of the 1750s. Fashioned from Cooper's own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, the novel revives Natty Bumpo (who had died in The Prairie), and illuminates Cooper's interest in American history with his concern for social development.
7) Sea tales
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Series
Library of America volume 54
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Last of the Mohicans is a story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, are on their way to join him. They are accompanied by Major Duncan Heyward, Alice's fiance, and by the treacherous Indian Magua, who secretly serves the French.
10) The pilot
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Series
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English
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Description
An attempt during the Revolutionary War to abduct some Englishmen for exchange against American prisoners. Plot suggested by the adventures of John Paul Jones.
11) The spy
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd
Pub. Date
1949.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thrilling story of courage and danger centering around the experiences of Harvey Birch, an American spy.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011, 1994.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a hunter and his Native American cohort who fight for Fort Bennington during the French and Indian Wars in 1755 Hudson Valley, New York. Based on The Leatherstocking Tales, a series of novels by James Fenimore Cooper.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
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Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 16
Publisher
Big Red Chair Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When he and his friends try to stop Oakdale's real estate developer from destroying part of the local park, Wishbone is reminded of the conflict between nature and civilization as he imagines himself as Hawkeye, the scout from James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans."
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1757, during the French and Indian War, half-sisters Cora and Alice Munro set out to join their father, the British Commander of Fort William Henry. After they are betrayed by Magua, the sisters are rescued by Hawkeye whose efforts to lead them to safety are aided by the noble Mohican Uncas, the last of this tribe.