Joseph Bruchac

Author of Code Talker

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About the Author

Joseph Bruchac, author of more than seventy books for children and adults, is also an acclaimed storyteller and poet. He has received many prestigious literary awards, including the American Book Award, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' show more Circle of The Americas show less

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Code Talker (2005) 2,367 copies

The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story (1993) 1,415 copies

Skeleton Man (2001) 1,170 copies

Trail of Tears (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5) (1999) 1,112 copies

Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back (1992) — Author — 916 copies

Sacajawea (2000) 909 copies

Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving (2000) 797 copies

The Arrow over the Door (1998) 597 copies

A Boy Called Slow (1995) 587 copies

Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children (1988) 558 copies

Children of the Longhouse (1996) 541 copies

Eagle Song (1997) 519 copies

The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 (2001) 495 copies

How Chipmunk Got His Stripes (2001) 460 copies

Pocahontas (2003) 349 copies

The Earth under Sky Bear's Feet (1995) 334 copies

Rabbit's Snow Dance (2012) 328 copies

Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear: Stories from Native North America (1993) 314 copies

The Dark Pond (2000) 303 copies

Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places (1996) 290 copies

Bearwalker (2007) 286 copies

Native American Stories (Myths and Legends) (1991) 279 copies

Crazy Horse's Vision (2000) 259 copies

The Heart of a Chief (1998) 258 copies

The Winter People (2002) 248 copies

March Toward the Thunder (2008) 221 copies

The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America (1994) 218 copies

The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales (2008) 216 copies

Native American Animal Stories (1992) 213 copies

Rez Dogs (2021) 211 copies

Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants through Native American Stories and Earth Activities for Children (Keepers of the… (1994) 191 copies

The Story of the Milky Way: A Cherokee Tale (1995) 179 copies

Keepers of the Night: Native American Stories and Nocturnal Activities for Children (Keepers of the Earth) (1994) — Author — 175 copies

The Warriors (2003) 168 copies

Killer of Enemies (2013) 168 copies

Jim Thorpe, Original All-American (2006) 166 copies

Turtle's Race with Beaver (2003) 164 copies

Geronimo (2006) 148 copies

Seasons of the Circle: A Native American Year (2002) 140 copies

The Great Ball Game: A Muskogee Story (1994) 139 copies

Wabi: A Hero's Tale (2006) 137 copies

Hidden Roots (2004) 135 copies

Two Roads (2018) 133 copies

Peacemaker (2021) 129 copies

Pushing up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children (2000) 109 copies

Native Plant Stories (1995) 107 copies

Wolf Mark (2011) 105 copies

Talking Leaves (2013) 105 copies

Dawn Land (1993) 104 copies

The Return of Skeleton Man (2006) 103 copies

Navajo Long Walk : Tragic Story Of A Proud Peoples Forced March From Homeland (2002) 102 copies

Trails of Tears, Paths of Beauty (2000) 100 copies

Buffalo Song (2008) 96 copies

Native North American Literary Companion (1995) — Managing Editor — 92 copies

Jim Thorpe's Bright Path (2004) 91 copies

The Circle of Thanks (1996) 89 copies

Native American Games and Stories (2000) 87 copies

Fox Song (1993) 87 copies

Iroquois Stories: Heroes and Heroines Monsters and Magic (1985) 86 copies

Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story (2018) 86 copies

The Native American Sweat Lodge: History and Legends (1993) 85 copies

Whisper in the Dark (2005) 83 copies

Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder (Images of Conservationists) (2004) 82 copies

Dragon Castle (2011) 79 copies

Night Wings (2009) 76 copies

Raccoon's Last Race (2004) 75 copies

Bowman's Store: A Journey to Myself (1997) 71 copies

The Boy Who Lived with the Bears: And Other Iroquois Stories (Parabola Storytime series) (1992) 70 copies

Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (1983) — Editor — 69 copies

Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture, and Values through Storytelling (2003) 65 copies

My Father Is Taller than a Tree (2010) 57 copies

The Way (Darby Creek Exceptional Titles) (2007) 56 copies

Lasting Echoes: An Oral History of Native American People (1997) 50 copies

Native Wisdom (Little Books of Wisdom) (1995) 49 copies

Sports Shorts (2005) — Contributor — 49 copies

Lay-Ups and Long Shots (2008) — Contributor — 48 copies

Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred (1996) 46 copies

Gluskabe and the Four Wishes (1995) 40 copies

Return of the Sun: Native American Tales from the Northeast Woodlands (1989) 40 copies

The Maple Thanksgiving (Little Celebrations) (1996) 39 copies

The Hunter's Promise: An Abenaki Tale (2015) 39 copies

Tell Me a Tale: A Book about Storytelling (1997) 37 copies

Dog People: Native Dog Stories (1995) 35 copies

When the Chenoo Howls: Native American Tales of Terror (1998) 33 copies

Coyote and the Butterflies: A Pueblo Indian Tale (Big Multicultural Tales) (1993) — Adapter — 30 copies

One Real American: The Life of Ely S. Parker, Seneca Sachem and Civil War General (2020) 30 copies

The Faithful Hunter: Abenaki Stories (1988) 30 copies

Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets (1983) — Editor — 28 copies

Four Ancestors: Stories, Songs, and Poems from Native North America (1996) 28 copies

The Native Stories from Keepers of the Earth (1991) 28 copies

The Wind Eagle and Other Abenaki Stories (1985) 28 copies

Brothers of the Buffalo: A Novel of the Red River War (2016) 27 copies

The Legend of Skeleton Man: Skeleton Man and The Return of Skeleton Man (2019) 27 copies

Trail of the Dead (Killer of Enemies) (1750) 25 copies

Found (Pathfinders) (2020) 23 copies

Graphic Classics: Native American Classics (2013) — Editor — 23 copies

Can Turtle Fly? (2004) 23 copies

New Voices from the Longhouse (1989) — Editor — 23 copies

Long River (1619) 22 copies

The Powwow Thief (The Powwow Mystery Series Book 1) (2019) 22 copies

Chenoo (2016) 22 copies

Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks, Vol 29) (1994) — Editor — 22 copies

Turtle Meat: And Other Stories (1992) 22 copies

Arrow of Lightning (Killer of Enemies Series) (2017) 21 copies

Survival this way : interviews with American Indian poets (1987) 20 copies

Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose (1995) — Editor — 17 copies

Hoop Snakes, Hide Behinds, and Side-Hill Winders: Tall Tales from the Adirondacks (1991) 16 copies

The Waters Between: A Novel of the Dawn Land (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England) (1998) 16 copies

Walking Two Worlds (2015) 16 copies

Growing Up Abenaki (Literacy by Design) (2007) 15 copies

How Killer Whale Came to Be (1994) 14 copies

The Powwow Treasure (Powwow Mystery) (2020) 14 copies

Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz (2023) 13 copies

The Native Stories from Keepers of the Animals (1994) 13 copies

The Long Run (2016) 12 copies

Raven Tells Stories: An Anthology of Alaskan Native Writing (1991) — Editor — 12 copies

No Borders (1998) 12 copies

Native Stories from Keepers of Life (1995) 12 copies

At Home on the Earth (2000) 11 copies

Voices of the People (2022) 11 copies

How thunder and lightning came to be: Based on a traditional Caddo story (Spotlight books) (1997) 11 copies

Turkey Brother, and other tales: Iroquois folk stories (The Crossing Press series of children's stories) (1975) 10 copies

Stone Giants and Flying Heads: Adventure Stories of the Iroquois (1972) 10 copies

Turtle's Race with Bear: An Iroquois Story (spotlight books) (1997) 9 copies

The Powwow Mystery: The Powwow Dog (2020) 9 copies

A Peacemaker for Warring Nations: The Founding of the Iroquois League (2021) 8 copies

Foot of the Mountain: And Other Stories (2005) 8 copies

Seeing the Circle (1999) 8 copies

At the End of Ridge Road (2005) 7 copies

Wolf Cub's Song (2020) 7 copies

Ndakinna (Our Land): New and Selected Poems (2003) 7 copies

The good message of Handsome Lake (1979) 6 copies

Singing of Earth: A Native American Anthology (1993) 6 copies

The Light from Another Country: Poetry from American Prisons (1984) 5 copies

Rose Eagle (2014) 5 copies

Translator's Son (1980) 5 copies

Entering Onondaga (1978) 4 copies

Emma's Gift (1995) 4 copies

The Greenfield Review: American Indian Writings 4 copies

Powwow Mystery: The Powwow Dog (2020) 4 copies

A Year of Moons: Stories From The Adirondack Foothills (2022) 4 copies

Above the Line: New Poems (2003) 4 copies

Red Letter Days 3 copies

Padoskoks (2021) 3 copies

The Story of All-star Athlete Jim Thorpe (2019) 3 copies

How to start and sustain a literary magazine : practical strategies for publications of lasting value (1980) 3 copies

Coyote Tales 3 copies

Whispers from Nature 3 copies

The dreams of Jesse Brown : a novel (1978) 3 copies

Mu'ndu Wi 'Go: Mohegan Poems (1978) 3 copies

The Next World: Poems by Third World Americans (The Crossing Press series of contemporary anthologies) (1978) 3 copies

Near The Mountains (1987) 2 copies

Gluskabe Stories (1990) 2 copies

Flow (1975) 2 copies

Les Primeres maduixes : conte cherokee (1994) 2 copies

Remembering the Dawn (1983) 2 copies

How Grizzly Bear Taught the People to Survive (Spotlight Books) (1997) 2 copies

The Manabozho Poems (1974) 1 copy

There are no trees inside the prison 1 copy

The Great Ball Game 1 copy

The Greenfield Review, Volume 8, Numbers 3 & 4: Fall 1980 1 copy

Great Meadow: Words of hearsay & heresy 1 copy

La saviesa de l'indi americà 1 copy

Boy Called Slow, A: The True Story of Sitting Bull 1 copy

La capanna del sudore. Storia e leggende (1996) 1 copy

Stanley's Christmas Adventure 1 copy

The Milky Way 1 copy

A Boy Called Slow( The True Story of Sitting Bull)[BOY CALLED SLOW][Paperback] 1 copy

Night Sky 1 copy

north country 1 copy

Words from the house of the dead: Prison writings from Soledad : a facsimile version of a book, 6:15 unlock--a kite… (1974) 1 copy

How Thunder and Earthquake Made Ocean 1 copy

THE TRAIL OF TEARS 1 copy

Jim Thorpe-the story of the all-star athlete 1 copy

The Light From Another Country : Poetry From American Prisons 1 copy

El Gran juego de pelota, un cuento de Muscogui 1 copy

Seven Sections From the Dreams of Jesse Bowman (1976) 1 copy

Vindørnen (1985) 1 copy

Indiaanse Legenden verhalen van indianen uit Noord-Amerika 1 copy

Walking with my sons: New poems (1986) 1 copy

The poetry of pop (1973) 1 copy

Tracking (1986) 1 copy

The Dark Pond; and Bearwalker (1900) 1 copy

Otstungo: A Mohawk Village in 1491 [periodical article] (1991) 1 copy

The Greenfield Review, Vol. 9, Nos. 3-4 1 copy

Big Wander (Native American Tales) (2004) 1 copy

The Last stop: Writings from Comstock Prison (1974) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection (Fulcrum Press) (2010) — Contributor — 545 copies

Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Contributor — 353 copies

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids (2021) — Contributor — 305 copies

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (2018) — Contributor — 221 copies

Guys Read: The Sports Pages (2012) — Contributor — 202 copies

Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories (1991) — Contributor — 194 copies

Growing Up Native American (1993) — Contributor — 169 copies

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (2013) — Contributor — 150 copies

Shattered: Stories of Children and War (2002) — Contributor — 149 copies

Baseball Crazy: Ten Short Stories that Cover All the Bases (2008) — Contributor — 120 copies

Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves (2012) — Contributor — 113 copies

Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court (2011) — Contributor — 108 copies

Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America (2020) — Contributor — 104 copies

The Best Spiritual Writing 1998 (1998) — Contributor — 101 copies

Girl Meets Boy: Because There Are Two Sides to Every Story (2011) — Contributor — 99 copies

On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Contributor — 98 copies

When I Was Your Age, Volume Two: Original Stories About Growing Up (1999) — Contributor — 92 copies

The Hero Next Door (2019) — Contributor — 89 copies

USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series (2013) — Contributor — 86 copies

Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today (2005) — Contributor — 85 copies

The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2002) — Contributor — 81 copies

The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns (2019) — Contributor — 73 copies

The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979) — Contributor — 69 copies

Earth Song, Sky Spirit (1993) — Contributor — 68 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2013 Edition (2013) — Contributor — 66 copies

Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1974-1994 (1996) — Contributor — 63 copies

Yonder Mountain: A Cherokee Legend (1999) — Foreword — 63 copies

I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (1987) — Contributor — 61 copies

Indian Country Noir (2010) — Contributor — 60 copies

Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019) — Contributor — 54 copies

Face Relations: 11 Stories about Seeing beyond Color (2004) — Contributor — 53 copies

Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature (2000) — Contributor — 52 copies

What a Song Can Do: 12 Riffs on the Power of Music (2004) — Contributor — 50 copies

No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History (2020) — Contributor — 48 copies

Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature (1983) — Contributor — 35 copies

Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (1995) — Contributor — 30 copies

Make Me Over: 11 Original Stories about Transforming Ourselves (2005) — Contributor — 29 copies

Skunny Wundy: Seneca Indian Tales (1926) — Foreword, some editions — 28 copies

Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (2011) — Contributor — 26 copies

Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica (2003) — Contributor — 25 copies

For Neruda, For Chile: An International Anthology (1975) — Contributor — 23 copies

Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing (2000) — Contributor — 19 copies

Voices Under One Sky: Contemporary Native Literature (1994) — Contributor — 19 copies

Whirlwind Is a Spirit Dancing: Poems Based on Traditional American Indian Songs and Stories (1974) — Editor, some editions — 17 copies

Wounds beneath the flesh (1983) — Contributor — 16 copies

Exotic Gothic 4 (2012) — Contributor — 12 copies

Buried Roots and Indestructible Seeds: The Survival Of American Indian Life In Story, History, and Spirit (1993) — Contributor — 11 copies

Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature (Sacred Worlds) (2017) — Foreword, some editions — 11 copies

Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning, Vol. 7, No. 3: Ceremonies (1982) — Contributor — 10 copies

Stories for a Winter's Night (2000) — Contributor — 8 copies

Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry (1994) — Contributor — 6 copies

Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology (2014) — Contributor — 5 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 9, May 1978 (1978) — Contributor — 5 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 6, February 1981 (1981) — Contributor — 3 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1, September 1975 (1975) — Contributor — 3 copies

Come to power : eleven contemporary American Indian poets. (1974) — Introduction — 2 copies

Poetry East : number twenty & twenty-one fall 1986 : poetics — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1942-10-16
Gender: male
Nationality: Abenaki Nation
United States of America
Country (for map): USA
Birthplace: Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Places of residence: Porter Corners, New York, USA
Education: Cornell University
Syracuse University
Union Institute of Ohio
Occupations: author
storyteller
musician
Relationships: Bruchac, James (son)
Bruchac, Carol (wife)
Bruchac, Jesse Bowman (son)
Organizations: Greenfield Review Literary Center
Greenfield Review Press
Skidmore College
Awards and honors: NYS CAPS (1974)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers Circle of The Americas (1999)
Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature (1996)
Short biography: James Bruchac is an award-winning storyteller, writer, and editor. He is of Abenanki Indian, English, and Slovac origin. He lives in Greenfield Center, New York. [from The Great Ball Game, 1994)

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How Chipmunk Got His Stripes (Picture Puffin Books) by Joseph Bruchac

Independent Reading Level: Grades K-3

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How Chipmunk Got His Stripes (Picture Puffin Books) by Joseph Bruchac

IRL: Kindergarten - 3
Awards: NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book For Young People

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marissaluke96 | 34 other reviews | Apr 23, 2024 |

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of… by Joseph Bruchac

this book is a historical fiction about the Navajo code talkers of world war two. This book was incredibly well written with themes of language, culture, and patriotism. This is an important story to talk about, especially in school as it shines a light on some of the more overlooked heroes of world war two, their challenges, and their inspiring story

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kaylee.dicey | 70 other reviews | Apr 23, 2024 |

Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac

Gr 3–8—While her parents are sheltering in place in Boston, Malian, an eighth grade Penacook girl, tries to keep
herself and her grandparents safe from COVID-19 on their reservation. In this novel in verse, Bruchac takes a look
at life in lockdown through the eyes of a girl coping with boredom, isolation, and the need to find her place. The text
addresses residential schools, relocation, and forced sterilization, as well as racial justice and the disproportionate
way that COVID-19 spread in marginalized communities.… (more)

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