A String of Beads

A String of Beads
Author: Margarette S. Reid
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1997
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

A young girl describes how she and her grandmother make jewelry from all kinds of beads. Includes information about the history of beads.

Blue Beads

Blue Beads
Author: Anne Coulter Martens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1938
Genre:
ISBN:

Blessing's Bead

Blessing's Bead
Author: Debby Dahl Edwardson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2009-11-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429946784

Nutaaq and her older sister, Aaluk, are on a great journey, sailing from a small island off the coast of Alaska to the annual trade fair. There, a handsome young Siberian wearing a string of cobalt blue beads watches Aaluk "the way a wolf watches a caribou, never resting." Soon his actions—and other events more horrible than Nutaaq could ever imagine—threaten to shatter her I~nupiaq world. Seventy years later, Nutaaq's greatgranddaughter, Blessing, is on her own journey, running from the wreckage of her life in Anchorage to live in a remote Arctic village with a grandmother she barely remembers. In her new home, unfriendly girls whisper in a language she can't understand, and Blessing feels like an outsider among her own people. Until she finds a cobalt blue bead—Nutaaq's bead—in her grandmother's sewing tin. The events this discovery triggers reveal the power of family and heritage to heal, despite seemingly insurmountable odds. Two distinct teenage voices pull readers into the native world of northern Alaska in this beautifully crafted and compelling debut novel.

A String of Beads

A String of Beads
Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802192041

The Native American rescue artist goes back on the job in “another excellently engineered thriller” from the New York Times–bestselling mystery author (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on the job, Jane McKinnon, née Whitefield, has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New York. But that all changes when she sees all eight female leaders of the Tonawanda Seneca clan parked in her driveway in two black cars. Jimmy, a childhood friend of Jane’s from the reservation, has been accused of murdering a local white man. But instead of turning himself in, he’s fled, and no one knows where he’s hiding. At the clan mothers’ request, Jane retraces a walking trip she and Jimmy took together when they were fourteen in hopes that he has gone the same way again. But it turns out the police are the least of Jimmy’s problems, and soon enough Jimmy and Jane are on the run together in this “first-rate suspense” novel from the Edgar Award–winning author (Booklist, starred review). “Whitefield is an indelible figure—whip-smart, resourceful, brave and big-hearted.” —The Seattle Times “Jane Whitefield is unique in the annals of detective fiction. She is a throwback to a tribal world, still loyal to the beliefs of the Seneca Indians and still adhering to the call of a lost era. Thomas Perry has once again resurrected a remarkable character who seems imbued with a strange immortality and an unusual morality, and he is to be congratulated.” —The Washington Times

Beads on a String

Beads on a String
Author: Paul Wedel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2021
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9786164510487

Siam at the turn of the 19th century. Four families in the southern peninsula of Siam (Thailand) are tied together by ambition, revenge, love and tragedy.