|
|
Indigenous Reads Rising for Teens |
|
|
|
|
|
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. A first novel.
|
|
|
|
Hunting by Stars
by Cherie Dimaline
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just how much, and whom, he is willing to sacrifice to survive and be reunited with Rose and the others.
|
|
|
|
Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix
by Cherie Dimaline
In this queer reimaging of The secret garden, fifteen-year-old orphan Mary sets off to live in the Georgian Bay wilds where she discovers family secrets both wonderful and horrifying.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
by Jenny Ferguson
Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets a letter from her biological father...Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him...While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer...when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't ignore her father forever.
|
|
|
|
Those Pink Mountain Nights
by Jenny Ferguson
While working at Pink Mountain Pizza, three teens—overachiever Berlin, high school dropout Cameron and rich girl Jessie—find their weekend taking unexpected turns, forcing them all to acknowledge the various ways they've been hurt—and how much they need each other to hold it all together.
|
|
|
|
Apple: Skin to the Core: A Memoir in Words and Pictures
by Eric Gansworth
The term 'Apple' is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly 'red on the outside, white on the inside.' Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.
|
|
|
|
My Good Man
by Eric Gansworth
When a mysterious assault lands the brother of his mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian, a 20-something Indigenous reporter, must pick up the threads of a life he's abandoned, returning to the Tuscarora reservation to discover the truth.
|
|
|
|
Rez Ball
by Byron Graves
When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up—not on the court, not in school and not in love.
|
|
|
|
Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger
When her mother and a local boy go missing after a strange interaction with a fairy ring, Shane and her ghost dogs, along with friends and family, search for them even though they may not be anywhere in this world—or this place in time.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
Ready When You Are
by Gary Lonesborough
When a boy with a troubled past comes to stay with family on the Mish, Jackson, as their friendship evolves, must confront the changing shapes of his relationships with his friends, family and community– and face his darkest secret.
|
|
|
|
Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story
by David Robertson
Inspired by true events, this story shares the awe-inspiring resilience of Elder Betty Ross. At a residential school, Betsy is forced to endure abuse and indignity, but her father's words give her the strength and determination to survive.
|
|
|
|
Man Made Monsters
by Andrea L. Rogers
Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period. Illustrations.
|
|
|
|
Hearts Unbroken
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The Wizard of Oz has been provoking backlash in their mostly white, middle-class Kansas town. As tensions mount at school, so does a romance between Lou and Joey. But 'dating while Native' can be difficult. In trying to protect her own heart, will Lou break Joey's?
|
|
|
|
Surviving the City
by Tasha Spillett
Indigenous teens Miikwan and Dez are best friends that navigate living in the city together, but when Dez's grandmother gets sick, Dez runs away instead of going to a group home, leaving Miikwan and the community to try and find her.
|
|
|
|
A Girl Called Echo
by Katherena Vermette
Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|