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Diverse Reads for All Ages Celebrating Native American Heritage Month |
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Here Come the Aunties!
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Aunts by kinship as well as family friends, neighbors, and community members all step up to fill the important role of auntie. They are there for life's joys, sorrows, and celebrations, bringing their own special love.A wonderful gift from or for a treasured auntie!
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The Women Before Us
by Nydia Armendia-Sánchez
A young girl proudly wears a colorful tunic, or huipil, that features the sun's reflection. It symbolizes the lake she lives on, a design she sometimes embellishes with shimmering sequins and beads. Her abuela's huipil highlights zigzag mountains to stand for her home of origin, while her sister's boasts butterflies like the ones that she rides in her daydreams.
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Native American Stories for Kids
by Tom Pecore Weso
Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America, exploring lore about how the mountain Denali formed, why the North Star stays still, and more. Spark excitement in Native American history and culture with enchanting stories from tribes across the continent.
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Beyond the Game
by Andrew Maraniss
This is the story of Indigenous professional runner Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone and her social justice work organizing and advocating for Indigenous people. Before she became a professional runner and a respected community advocate, before she began speaking out for Indigenous causes and peoples, Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone was just a kid.
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Medicine Wheels
by Byron Graves
With nowhere to call home, Bryce crashes at his grandparents' house on Wolf Creek reservation. Skateboarding reminds Bryce of his late dad: carefree, riding like he could fly. If Bryce could learn to ride like that, he'd take his crew to the top of the skateboarding championship at the end of the summer, and finally prove he's not a loser.
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The Others
by Cheryl Isaacs
All Avery wants is a normal summer with Key, her now-boyfriend. The trauma, however, casts a long shadow over the town. Some victims never returned. Terrifying memories threaten to resurface, but Avery pushes them down. Wracked by anxiety, Avery begins to see a chilling reflection in every mirror, one that moves on its own--and she's not the only one.
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Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again.That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation, often when they need it most.
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A Constellation of Minor Bears
by Jen Ferguson
Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother, Hank, and his best friend, Tray. The indoor climbing accident that left Hank with a traumatic brain injury filled Molly with anger.While she knows the accident wasn't Tray's fault, she will never forgive him for being there and failing to stop the damage. But she can't forgive herself for not being there either. Determined to go on the trio's post graduation hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, even without Hank, Molly packs her bag. But when her parents put Tray in charge of looking out for her, she is stuck backpacking with the person who incites her easy anger.
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Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
by Sean Sherman
Discover the multifaceted story of the foods that have linked the environment, traditions, and legacy of Native American tribes for millennia through over 150 ancestral and modern Indigenous recipes from three-time James Beard Award-winning Sioux chef Sean Sherman. Sean. In Turtle Island, he explores the diverse Native foodways of this continent, spotlighting the foods that have nourished, both physically and spiritually, the North American peoples for generations.
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Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II
by Multiple Authors
In these twenty-one brand-new, groundbreaking, gruesome stories--authored by both established and newly unearthed Indigenous talent, the contributors are fully embracing horror: both supernatural horrors and the everyday horror of living under colonialist rule. Featuring stories of unspeakable yet satisfying terror, from twisted psychological tales to gore-filled monster hunts, this new selection of sinister stories will sate your darkest appetites and leave you slavering for more.
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If the Dead Belong Here
by Carson Faust
When six-year-old Laurel Taylor vanishes without a trace, her family is left shattered, struggling to navigate the darkness of grief and unanswered questions. As their search turns to despair, Laurel's older sister, Nadine, begins experiencing nightmares that blur the line between dream and reality, and she becomes convinced that Laurel's disappearance could be connected to other family tragedies. Guided by her elders, Nadine sets out to uncover whether laying the ghosts to rest is the key to finding her sister and healing her fractured family.
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We Survived the Night
by Julian Brave Noisecat
In his father's absence, NoiseCat immersed himself in Native history and culture to understand the man he seldom saw--his past, his story, where he came from--and, by extension, himself. Years later, NoiseCat sets out across the continent to correct the erasure, invisibility, and misconceptions surrounding the First Peoples of this land as he develops his voice as a storyteller and artist.
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