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Native American Heritage Month Titles for Middle Schoolers & Teens November 2025 |
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Code talker : a novel of the Navajo Marines of World War Two
by Joseph Bruchac
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue
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The second chance of Benjamin Waterfalls
by James Bird
After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a “boot camp” at the Objibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance.
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Red Bird danced
by Dawn Quigley
Living in a large urban Native housing project, Ariel, whose Auntie went missing, and Tomah, who has difficulty reading, find strength and hope in their connection and in their intertribal community as they learn to share the rhythms and stories they carry within themselves.
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We still belong
by Christine Day
Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.
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Indigenous ingenuity : a celebration of traditional North American knowledge
by Deidre Havrelock
This wide-ranging STEM book, which includes fun-filled, simple activities and experiments, celebrates the countless discoveries and technological inventions from Indigenous North Americans, showing readers how to embrace the mindset of reciprocity, environmental responsibility and the interconnectedness of all life. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Firekeeper's daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player places her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy.
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Rez ball
by Byron Graves
Sixteen-year-old Ojibwe Tre copes with the pressure of grief and legacy while working to take the reservation high school basketball team to the state championship to honor his brother's memory.
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A snake falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families
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The marrow thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world.
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Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
by Monique Gray Smith
Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things--from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen--provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.
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