Books like Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper

After a Cessna crash leaves teenage Brian Robinson alone in the Canadian wilderness, he must learn to survive, uncovering self-reliance and resilience amid a harsh, beautiful landscape.

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

In Washington Irving’s classic, a superstitious schoolmaster falls ill after a chilling encounter with a headless horseman while courting a wealthy farmer’s daughter.

Craig of the Mohicans, a frontier scout turns away from civilization, forming a bond with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters across the perilous wilderness of America's frontier.

In rural Oregon of the 1920s, a sixteen‑year‑old biracial girl searches for the truth behind her father’s death while evading the Ku Klux Klan.

A young Ojibwa girl named Omakayas tells her life on an island in Lake Superior in 1847, offering an intimate view of her people and environment.

An Indian judge in a Himalayan estate grapples with retirement and family secrets when his orphaned granddaughter Sai arrives, sparking personal discovery amid the echoes of colonial history.

A group of settlers encounters an old trapper on the prairie in 1805, as they push westward over the Great Plains for new land and opportunities in the United States of America, while the country is still being explored.

During the eighteenth century in Maine, a young boy is left alone to guard his family's wilderness home and must learn survival skills from local Indians before anyone else arrives.

Saul, a young Ojibwa boy, is separated from his family, sent to a brutal off‑reservation boarding school, and finds only hockey as a path to redemption amid racism and trauma.

A haunting tale of a 19th‑century mermaid, Syrenka, whose love sparks murders that echo into the present, where Hester encounters Ezra’s ghost and uncovers a sinister link to the dead.

A fourteen‑year‑old New York photographer’s apprentice discovers the danger of fraudulent spirit images when an earnest ghost of a murdered girl, seeking vengeance, is accidentally unleashed.

After relocating to a Dakota farm, John Hale must use his resilience to survive the deadly January 1888 blizzard that claimed the lives of many children, a tragic event that shaped frontier history.

Thirteen‑year‑old Julio discovers friendship and clues to his identity while living with the Cheyenne tribe that rescued him on the Santa Fe Trail in 1845.

In 1930s Northern Canada, brothers Arthur and Jake vie for their father's farm amid looming war. When a young woman arrives, sibling rivalry turns into a fragile, emotional storm that shakes their rural lives.

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Five Alaska Native teens—Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq—navigate the challenges of a Catholic boarding school in the early 1960s, discovering friendship and belonging across diverse tribal backgrounds.

The autobiography was dictated by Black Hawk in 1833, using the official U.S. interpreter for the Sacs and Foxes. This took place shortly after the Black Hawk War, when Black Hawk was in the custody of the Government. The full descriptive title was: “Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk, embracing the tradition of his nation – Indian wars in which he has been engaged – cause of joining the British in their late war with America, and its history – description of the Rock-River village – manners and customs – encroachments by the whites, contrary to treaty – removal from his village in 1831. With an account of the cause and general history of the late war, his surrender and confinement at Jefferson Barracks, and travels through the United States, dictated by himself.”

The sinister Patron of the Rancho filled Courtney's heart with passion and fear. Courtney Keating is young, beautiful and alone in the world. All she has is a letter from her father promising her a share in the rich strike he called "The Queen of Tears." The secret of that legacy is concealed in the somber mansion known as Hawkshadow, the home of the infamous Barrons: Persia Barron Keating Courtney's - Courtney's stepmother, a stunning woman who makes no secret of her scandalous past. She has no intention of sharing anything with Courtney--not her home, nor her wealth, nor her stepsons. Nace Barron - A man of violent contrasts who is known as "The Sinister Falcon." He gives Courtney two choices: marriage or ravishment. Gill Barron - The charming, genial younger brother. He has his own ideas about the Barron line of succession-and his plans include Courtney. Caught in a dangerous drama of greed, jealousy, and revenge, Courtney is afraid to trust anyone-until she gives in to the impulses of her own heart.