About Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac has authored more than 70 books for adults and children. His poems, articles and stories have appeared in over 500 publications. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood, those Native roots are the ones by which he has been most nourished.
He holds a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from Syracuse and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Union Institute of Ohio. His work as a educator includes eight years of directing a college program for Skidmore College inside a maximum security prison. With his wife, Carol, he is the founder and Co-Director of the Greenfield Review Literary Center and The Greenfield Review Press. He has edited a number of highly praised anthologies of contemporary poetry and fiction, including Songs from this Earth on Turtle's Back, Breaking Silence (winner of an American Book Award) and Returning the Gift. His poems, articles and stories have appeared in over 500 publications, from American Poetry Review, Cricket and Aboriginal Voices to National Geographic, Parabola and Smithsonian Magazine. His honors include a Rockefeller Humanities fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship for Poetry, the Cherokee Nation Prose Award, the Knickerbocker Award, the Hope S. Dean Award for Notable Achievement in Children's Literature and both the 1998 Writer of the Year Award and the 1998 Storyteller of the Year Award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. In 1999, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.
As a professional teller of the traditional tales of the Adirondacks and the Native peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, Joe Bruchac has performed widely in Europe and throughout the United States from Florida to Hawaii and has been featured at such events as the British Storytelling Festival and the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee. He has been a storyteller-in-residence for Native American organizations and schools throughout the continent, including the Institute of Alaska Native Arts and the Onondaga Nation School. He discusses Native culture and his books and does storytelling programs at dozens of elementary and secondary schools each year as a visiting author.
Joseph Bruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him.
Joseph Bruchac has authored more than 70 books for adults and children. His poems, articles and stories have appeared in over 500 publications. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood, those Native roots are the ones by which he has been most nourished.
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| 1. Talking Leaves (Audio CD)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
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| 2. Brothers of the Buffalo: A Novel of the Red River War (Paperback)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
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02/02/2016
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| 3. Amazing Places (Hardcover)
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrator: Chris K. Soentpiet, Christy Hale
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
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10/01/2015
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32 Reviews |
| 4. Trail of the Dead (Killer of Enemies Series) (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Tu Books
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10/01/2015
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34 Reviews |
| 5. The Hunter's Promise: An Abenaki Tale (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Bill Farnsworth
Publisher: Wisdom Tales
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09/07/2015
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40 Reviews |
| 6. Walking Two Worlds (PathFinders) (Paperback)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: David Fadden
Publisher: 7th Generation
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03/01/2015
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| 7. Rabbit's Snow Dance (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Jeff Newman
Publisher: Dial
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11/08/2012
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| 8. Guys Read: The Sports Pages (Paperback)
Author: Anne Ursu, Dan Gutman, Gordon Korman, Jacqueline Wilson, Jon Scieszka, Joseph Bruchac, Tim Green, Chris Rylander
Illustrator: Dan Santat
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
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07/10/2012
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| 9. The Way (Darby Creek Exceptional Titles) (Kindle Edition)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Darby Creek
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04/12/2012
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| 10. The Warriors (Exceptional Reading & Language Arts Titles for Intermediat...
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
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09/29/2011
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| 11. Hidden Roots (Paperback)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Bowman Books
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01/31/2011
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| 12. Dawn Land (Paperback)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Will Davis
Publisher: First Second
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10/12/2010
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61 Reviews |
| 13. Amazing Faces (Hardcover)
Illustrator: Chris K. Soentpiet
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
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06/30/2010
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| 14. My Father Is Taller than a Tree (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Wendy Halperin
Publisher: Dial
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03/18/2010
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| 15. Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear: Tales from Native North Am...
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
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03/2010
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| 16. Sacajawea: The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (P...
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Playaway
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01/01/2010
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| 17. Night Wings (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Sally Wern Comport
Publisher: HarperCollins
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06/30/2009
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38 Reviews |
| 18. The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales (Folktal...
Illustrator: Stefano Vitale
Publisher: Sterling
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11/04/2008
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| 19. Lay-ups and Long Shots: An Anthology of Short Stories (Hardcover)
Author: David Lubar, Joseph Bruchac, Lynea Bowdish, Terry Trueman, C. S. Perryess
Publisher: Darby Creek Publishing
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10/01/2008
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29 Reviews |
| 20. March Toward the Thunder (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Dial
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05/01/2008
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30 Reviews |
| 21. Buffalo Song (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Bill Farnsworth
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
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03/30/2008
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24 Reviews |
| 22. Bearwalker (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Sally Wern Comport
Publisher: HarperCollins
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07/03/2007
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89 Reviews |
| 23. The Return of Skeleton Man (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Sally Wern Comport
Publisher: HarperCollins
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07/25/2006
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64 Reviews |
| 24. Jim Thorpe, Original All-American (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Dial
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07/06/2006
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| 25. Wabi (Hardcover)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Dial
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04/20/2006
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26 Reviews |
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