Buffalo Before Breakfast (Magic Tree House #18) by Mary Pope Osborne

Buffalo Before Breakfast (Magic Tree House #18) by Mary Pope Osborne-72 pages

I read this last year and enjoyed, so I wanted to read it again this year. Jack and Annie are taken back in time to the Great Plains and meet a Lakota boy named Black Hawk. He is a young warrior living with his grandmother. Black Hawk takes them to see a buffalo herd and tries to hunt buffalo on his own. It quickly turns into a stampede that they must escape from. I like that the reader learns about Native American, specifically Lakota, history and culture. One learns that the Lakota used the entire buffalo and didn't kill more than necessary. Unfortunately, white settlers and the U.S. Army overhunted for sport and spite and the buffalo nearly went extinct. I really like that these books take kids on an adventure while also learning "real" history.