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Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
A collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers that chronicle Native families from Nations across the continent gathering at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Children of the longhouse by Joseph Bruchac In a Native American tale by the author of The First Strawberries, eleven-year-old Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister must make peace with a hostile gang of older boys in their Mohawk village during the late 1400s.
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Eagle song by Joseph Bruchac After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage and longs to be back on the reservation. By the author of Children of the Longhouse.
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Rez dogs by Joseph BruchacWhen the COVID-19 pandemic starts, Malian, a young Wabanaki girl, is quarantined with her grandparents on the reservation, where she befriends a local dog and learns about her ancestors and how they always survive together.
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Skeleton man
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Joseph Bruchac
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
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I can make this promise
by
Christine Day
In a story based on the author’s real-life experiences, a girl uncovers a secret that connects her to her Native American heritage, throwing everything she believes about her family into question. A first novel. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Morning Girl
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Michael Dorris
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world
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Sees Behind Trees
by
Michael Dorris
A Native American boy with a special gift to "see" beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty
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The whale child
by Keith Egawa
Shiny, a whale child, is turned into a boy to teach Alex, a young girl, the wisdom of the Native American value of environmental stewardship so that she can share it with others. Includes glossary of environmental terms, facts about Pacific Northwest Native cultures, and other educational resources
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The birchbark house
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Louise Erdrich
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847
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Makoons
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Louise Erdrich
A follow-up to Chickadee finds Makoons and his twin training to become buffalo hunters on the Great Plains of the mid-19th-century Dakota Territory before a vision warns them of imminent challenges. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Round House. Simultaneous eBook. 75,000 first printing.
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Diamond Willow
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Helen Frost
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her. 10,000 first printing.
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The case of Windy Lake
by Michael Hutchinson
Four inseparable cousins, known as the Mighty Muskrats, work together to find a missing archeologist on the Windy Lake First Nation
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Fatty legs : a true story
by
Christy Jordan-Fenton
This book chronicles the unbreakable spirit of an Inuit girl bullied by a teacher while attending an Arctic residential school
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In the footsteps of Crazy Horse
by
Joseph Marshall
A mixed-race Lakota youth learns about his Native American heritage through the story of Crazy Horse, in an account that draws on oral traditions to recount his heroic advocacy of his people and how he lead a war party to victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. 15,000 first printing.
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Race to the sun
by
Rebecca Roanhorse
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms
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The barren grounds : The Misewa Saga, Book 1
by David Robertson
When two indigenous foster children find a secret portal to another reality, they encounter Ochek, the only hunter supporting his starving community of Misewa, and the three try to save Misewa before the icy winter freezes everything
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Indian shoes
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Cynthia Leitich Smith
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges, in a collection of interrelated, heartwarming stories.
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Lana's Lakota moons
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Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Cousins Lori and Lana, Lakota Indians who have a close but competitive relationship, learn about their heritage and culture throughout the year, and when a Laotian-Hmong girl comes to their school, they make friends with her and "adopt" her as one of their own
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The sign of the beaver
by
Elizabeth George Speare
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills
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My name is Seepeetza
by
Shirley Sterling
Seepeetza must leave her family's ranch and go live at the Indian residential school, where she is forced to deny her native heritage
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Stone River crossing
by
Tim Tingle
When Martha Tom crosses the Bok Chitto River into the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory she meets Lil Mo, an enslaved boy whose mother is about to be sold, so Martha convinces Lil Mo's family to cross the river and be free
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Healer of the water monster by Brian YoungA debut novel inspired by Native-American culture follows the experiences of a boy whose summer at his grandmother’s reservation home is shaped by his uncle’s addictions and an encounter with a sacred being from the Navajo Creation Story.
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