Gift Horse

Title: Gift Horse: A Lakota Story
Author: S.D. Nelson
Illustrator: S.D. Nelson
Type: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 4th-12th
Publisher: Henry N. Abrams, Inc.

Date of Publication: 1999
ISBN: 978-0810941274

Synopsis: A boy is given a horse to mark his entry into manhood.  They play, hunt, and fight together, while the boy learns important lessons from the horse.

Possible Teaching Points: 1)Lakota Nation, 2) Native American customs