# House of Purple Cedar

**Author:** Tim Tingle
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2014
**Page count:** 338
**Genre:** Young Adult
**ISBN-13:** `9781935955252`
**ISBN-10:** `193595525X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/house-of-purple-cedar
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

“The hour has come to speak of troubled times. It is time we spoke of Skullyville.” Thus begins the House of Purple Cedar, Rose Goode’s telling of the year when she was eleven in Indian country, Oklahoma. The Indian schools boys and girls had been burned, stores too. By the time the railroad came, all of Skullyville had been burned.

## Where this book is assigned

### American Indian Youth Literature Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 AILA Winner (Young Adult)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 AILA Winner (Young Adult)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 AILA Winner (Young Adult)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 AILA Winner (Young Adult)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)

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