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Indigenous Multiage Book Pack (25 books)
Inspired by books from the Read in Color® recommended reading list from Little Free Library®.
Pack includes the following books:
- BEARSTONE
- THE BRAVE
- BORDERS (Graphic Novel)
- CODE TALKER: A NOVEL ABOUT THE NAVAJO MARINES OF WORLD WAR TWO
- FIREKEEPER'S DAUGHTER
- HEARTS UNBROKEN
- IMAGINARY BORDERS (Pocket Change Collective)
- INDIGENOUS INGENUITY: A CELEBRATION OF TRADITIONAL NORTH AMERICAN KNOWLEDGE
- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (Revisioning History for Young People #02 )
- LOST DREAMER (Lost Dreamer Duology #01)
- LOVE MEDICINE
- ONE REAL AMERICAN: THE LIFE OF ELY S PARKER, SENECA SACHEM AND THE CIVIL WAR GENERAL
- TWO ROADS
- RUN LITTLE CHASKI!: AN INKA TRAIL ADVENTURE (Step Inside a Story)
- REMEMBER
- THE REMOVED
- SABRINA AND CORINA: STORIES
- THE SECOND CHANCE OF BENJAMIN WATERFALLS
- SHARICE'S BIG VOICE: A NATIVE KID BECOMES A CONGRESSWOMAN
- SISTERS OF THE NEVERSEA
- WATER LADY: HOW DARLENE ARVISO HELPS A THIRSTY NAVAJO NATION
- WE ARE GRATEFUL: OTSALIHELIGA
- WE ARE WATER PROTECTORS
- WHEN CLAY SINGS
- WILMA MANKILLER (She Persisted)
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Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge
This beautifully designed, interactive nonfiction work celebrates North American Indigenous thinkers and inventions--perfect for fans of BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. Our lives would be unrecognizable without these, and countless other, scientific discoveries and technological inventions from Indigenous North Americans.
Spanning topics from transportation to civil engineering, hunting technologies, astronomy, brain surgery, architecture, and agriculture, INDIGENOUS INGENUITY is a wide-ranging STEM offering that answers the call for Indigenous nonfiction by re-appropriating hidden history. The book includes fun, simple activities and experiments that kids can do to better understand and enjoy the principles used by Indigenous inventors.
Readers of all ages are invited to celebrate traditional North American Indigenous innovation, and to embrace the mindset of reciprocity, environmental responsibility, and the interconnectedness of all life.
"An astonishing, exuberant treasure trove of history, science and hands-on activities that repeatedly begs the question: "Why didn't I know this?" Essential for kids and adults. We need this book." --Candace Fleming, award-winning author of THE RISE AND FALL OF CHARLES LINDBERGH and THE FAMILY ROMANOV
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Target age group 8-12 -
Indigenous Peoples History of the United States for Young People (Revisioning History for Young People #02 )
Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism.
Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity.
The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history.
2020 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, selected by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children's Book Council
Best YA Nonfiction of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews)
Best Nonfiction of 2019 (School Library Journal)
Best Books for Teens 2019 (New York Public Library)
Best Informational Books for Older Readers (Chicago Public Library)
Target age group 12 and up -
Sabrina And Corina: Stories
Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection -- a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado -- a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite -- these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.
In "Sugar Babies," ancestry and heritage are hidden inside the earth but tend to rise during land disputes.
"Any Further West" follows a sex worker and her daughter as they leave their ancestral home in southern Colorado only to find a foreign and hostile land in California.
In "Tomi," a woman leaves prison and finds herself in a gentrified city that is a shadow of the one she remembers from her childhood.
And in the title story, "Sabrina & Corina," a Denver family falls into a cycle of violence against women, coming together only through ritual. "Sabrina & Corina" is a moving narrative of unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home.
"SABRINA & CORINA isn't just good, it's masterful storytelling." --Fajardo
"Anstine is a fearless writer: her women are strong and scarred witnesses of the violations of their homelands, their culture, their bodies; her plots turn and surprise, unerring and organic in their comprehensiveness; her characters break your heart, but you keep on going because you know you are in the hands of a master. Her stories move through the heart of darkness and illuminate it with the soul of truth." --Julia Alvarez, author of HOW THE GARCÍA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS
"[A] powerhouse debut... stylistically superb, with crisp dialogue and unforgettable characters, SABRINA & CORINA introduces an impressive new talent to American letters." --Rigoberto González, NBC News
"Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart." --Sandra Cisneros
National Book Award Finalist
Winner of the American Book Award
Finalist for the Story Prize
Finalist for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Target age group 15 and up -
Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story
In this Wampanoag story told in a Native tradition, two kids from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe learn the story of Weeâchumun (corn) and the first Thanksgiving.
The Thanksgiving story that most Americans know celebrates the Pilgrims. But without members of the Wampanoag tribe who already lived on the land where the Pilgrims settled, the Pilgrims would never have made it through their first winter. And without Weeâchumun (corn), the Native people wouldn't have helped.
An important picture book honoring both the history and tradition that surrounds the story of the first Thanksgiving.
Target age group 3-7 -
Buffalo Bird Girl: Hidatsa Story
A stunning picture book biography of a 19th century Hidatsa woman, from award-winning author/illustrator S. D. Nelson.
Buffalo Bird Girl (ca. 1839-1932) was a member of the Hidatsa, a Native American community that lived in permanent villages along the Missouri River on the Great Plains.
Like other girls her age, Buffalo Bird Girl learned the ways of her people through watching and listening, and then by doing. She helped plant crops in the spring, tended the fields through the summer, and in autumn joined in the harvest. She learned to prepare animal skins, dry meat, and perform other duties. There was also time for playing games with friends and training her dog. When her family visited the nearby trading post, there were all sorts of fascinating things to see from the white man's settlements in the East.
Award-winning author and artist S. D. Nelson (Standing Rock Sioux) captures the spirit of Buffalo Bird Girl by interweaving the actual words and stories of Buffalo Bird Woman with his artwork and archival photographs.
Back matter includes a history of the Hidatsa and a timeline.
Target age group 6-9 -
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
Edited by award-winning and best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In a high school gym full of color and song, people dance, sell beadwork and books, and celebrate friendship and heritage. Young protagonists will meet relatives from faraway, mysterious strangers, and sometimes one another (plus one scrappy rez dog).
They are the heroes of their own stories.
Featuring stories and poems by:
- Joseph Bruchac
- Art Coulson
- Christine Day
- Eric Gansworth
- Carole Lindstrom
- Dawn Quigley
- Rebecca Roanhorse
- David A. Robertson
- Andrea L. Rogers
- Kim Rogers
- Cynthia Leitich Smith
- Monique Gray Smith
- Traci Sorell
- Tim Tingle
- Erika T. Wurth
- Brian Young
In partnership with We Need Diverse Books
Target age group 8-12 -
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
"Fry bread is food.
It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate.
Fry bread is time.
It brings families together for meals and new memories.
Fry bread is nation.
It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond.
Fry bread is us.
It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference."
Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, FRY BREAD is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpré Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal.
Target age group 3-6 -
Run Little Chaski!: An Inka Trail Adventure (Step Inside a Story)
In this tale set in the ancient Inka empire, Little Chaski has a big job: he is the Inka King's newest royal messenger. But on his first day things quickly start to go awry. Will Little Chaski be able to deliver the royal message on time?
Target age group 4-8
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Run Little Chaski!: An Inka Trail Adventure (Spanish/English) (Step Inside a Story Bilingual)
In this tale set in the ancient Inka empire, Little Chaski has a big job: he is the Inka King's newest royal messenger. But on his first day things quickly start to go awry. Will Little Chaski be able to deliver the royal message on time?
English / Spanish Bilingual Edition
Target age group 4-8
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Autumn Peltier Water Warrior
From New York Times best-selling picture book author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Bridget George comes AUTUMN PELTIER, WATER WARRIOR, an inspiring picture book biography about two Indigenous Rights Activists, Josephine Mandamin and Autumn Peltier.
"The seventh generation is creating
A sea of change. It was a soft voice, at first.
Like a ripple.
But with practice it grew louder."
Indigenous women have always worked tirelessly to protect our water--keeping it pure and clean for the generations to come. Yet there was a time when their voices and teachings were nearly drowned out, leaving entire communities and environments in danger and without clean water. But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece, Autumn Peltier.
Featuring a foreword from water advocate and Indigenous Rights Activist Autumn Peltier herself, this stunning picture book from New York Times best-selling author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Bridget George gives voice to the water and asks young readers to join the tidal wave of change.
Target age group 4-8 -
Somos Guardianes del Agua (We Are Water Protectors)
A beautifully illustrated, lyrical exploration of the values, connections and wisdom of Indigenous people as it relates to water and Mother Earth. This book was inspired by the many Indigenous led movements in North America to protect water as a sacred source of and for life.
Una exploración lírica bellamente ilustrada de los valores, las conexiones y la sabiduría de los pueblos indígenas en relación con el agua y la Madre Tierra. Este libro se inspiró en los muchos movimientos liderados por indígenas en América del Norte para proteger el agua como una fuente sagrada de y para la vida.
Spanish Language Edition
Target age group 4-8 -
Baby Mammoth Mummy: Frozen in Time: A Prehistoric Animal's Journey Into the 21st Century (National Geographic Kids)
Meet Lyuba--the most perfectly preserved baby mammoth ever discovered!
Found lying along a riverside 31,000 years after her birth, Lyuba provides a never-before-seen view of prehistoric life in Siberia. Together with award-winning author Christopher Sloan, kids learn the story of her discovery by the indigenous Nenet people and peak inside Lyuba's mysterious prehistoric world.
Readers will join scientists as they recreate Lyuba's life and death using cutting edge science--including paleontology, radiology, and forensic science--and reveal new information about mammoths and their ice age home.
Lyuba's incredible story, which debuted as a National Geographic Channel exclusive and as articles in National Geographic magazine and National Geographic Kids magazine, is certain to be a fascinating read for kids and a great complement to science curriculum.
Target age group 8-12 -
When the Stars Came Home
A heartwarming book from creators of Indigenous and Métis descent about the power of story and tradition to help navigate change.
How does a strange new place become home?
When Ojiig moves to the city with his family, he misses everything they left behind. Most of all, he misses the sparkling night sky. Without the stars watching over him, he feels lost. His parents try to help, but nothing seems to work. Not glow-in-the-dark sticker stars, not a star-shaped nightlight. But then they have a new idea for how to make Ojiig feel better -- a special quilt stitched through with family stories that will wrap Ojiig in the warmth of knowing who he is and where he came from.
Join this irresistible family as they discover the power of story and tradition to make a new place feel like home.
Target age group 4-8 -
Child of the Flower Song People: Luz Jiménez Daughter of the Nahua
Award-winning illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh brings to life debut author Gloria Amescua's lyrical picture book biography of an Indigenous Nahua woman from Mexico who taught and preserved her people's culture through modeling for famous artists.
"She was Luz Jiménez, child of the flower-song people, the powerful Aztec, who called themselves Nahua--who lost their land but who did not disappear."
As a young Nahua girl in Mexico during the early 1900s, Luz learned how to grind corn in a metate, to twist yarn with her toes, and to weave on a loom. By the fire at night, she listened to stories of her community's joys, suffering, and survival, and wove them into her heart.
A 2022 Pura Belpré Award Author Honor Book
Target age group 6-10 -
We Are Water Protectors
Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, WE ARE WATER PROTECTORS issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption-- a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade.
"Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... "
When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource.
- Winner of the 2021 Caldecott Medal
- New York Times Bestseller
Target age group 3-6 -
Saints of the Household
SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer--that will take your breath away.
Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to stick to a schedule and keep their heads down. But when they hear a classmate in trouble in the woods, instinct takes over and they intervene, breaking up a fight and beating their high school's star soccer player to a pulp.
This act of violence threatens the brothers' dreams for the future and their beliefs about who they are. As the true details of that fateful afternoon unfold over the course of the novel, Max and Jay grapple with the weight of their actions, their shifting relationship as brothers, and the realization that they may be more like their father than they thought.
They'll have to reach back to their Bribri roots to find their way forward. Told in alternating points of view using vignettes and poems, debut author Ari Tison crafts an emotional, slow-burning drama about brotherhood, abuse, recovery, and doing the right thing.
Winner of the Pura Belpré Award
Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult Literature
Target age group 14-18 -
Warrior Girl Unearthed
#1 New York Times best-selling author of FIREKEEPER'S DAUGHTER Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen history.
Sometimes, the truth shouldn't stay buried.
Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is--the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry begins to question everything.
In order to reclaim this inheritance for her people, Perry has no choice but to take matters into her own hands. She can only count on her friends and allies, including her overachieving twin and a charming new boy in town with unwavering morals. Old rivalries, sister secrets, and botched heists cannot--will not--stop her from uncovering the mystery before the ancestors and missing women are lost forever.
An Instant New York Times bestseller
#1 Indies Bestseller
An Amazon Best Book of the Month
An Indigo Teen Staff Pick of the Month
An Indie Next Pick
Five starred reviews for WARRIOR GIRL UNEARTHED
Target age group 14-18 -
Where Is the North Pole? (Where Is?)
Young armchair adventurers can travel to the topmost point on the globe and learn all about the vast region surrounding the North Pole.
From the #1 New York Times Best-selling "Who Was?" series comes "Where Is?," a series that tells the stories of world-famous landmarks and natural wonders and features a fold-out map!
It might seem lonely at the top of the world, but the North Pole is teeming with life! Polar bears, walruses, and arctic seals make their home on sea ice that can be nine feet thick while the Inuit and other indigenous peoples continue their traditions and means for survival in this harsh climate. Along with the early twentieth-century story of Robert Peary's egomaniacal quest to reach the exact spot of the North Pole, this is an exciting new addition to the "Where Is?" series.
Target age group 8-12 -
My Powerful Hair
From the award-winning and best-selling author of WE ARE WATER PROTECTORS comes an empowering picture book family history, self-expression, and reclaiming your identity.
Our ancestors say our hair is our memories, our source of strength and power, a celebration of our lives. Mom never had long hair -- she was told it was too wild. Grandma couldn't have long hair -- hers was taken from her. But one young girl can't wait to grow her hair long: for herself, for her family, for her connection to her culture and the Earth, and to honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
From Carole Lindstrom, author of the New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Medal winner WE ARE WATER PROTECTORS, and debut illustrator Steph Littlebird comes an empowering and healing celebration of hair and its significance across Indigenous cultures.
Target age group 4-8 -
Snake Falls to Earth
Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.
Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake.
Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven't been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart.
A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH is a breathtaking work of Indigenous futurism. Darcie Little Badger draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family. It is not to be missed.
Target age group 12-17 -
I Sang You Down from the Stars
This unique baby book sings with Native cultural detail, while striking a universal chord in its celebration of the blossoming of love that comes with expecting and welcoming a new baby--with art by New York Times best-selling illustrator and Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade
As she waits for the arrival of her new baby, a mother-to-be gathers gifts to create a sacred bundle. A white feather, cedar and sage, a stone from the river...
Each addition to the bundle will offer the new baby strength and connection to tradition, family, and community. As they grow together, mother and baby will each have gifts to offer each other.
Tasha Spillett-Sumner and Michaela Goade, two Indigenous creators, bring beautiful words and luminous art together in a resonant celebration of the bond between mother and child.
A New York Times Bestseller
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book
Target age group 4-7 -
Native Peoples of California (North American Indian Nations)
California is a land of varied landscapes, climates, and cultures. Before Europeans arrived in North America, more than twenty independent American Indian groups lived in this region. Their cultures were as diverse as the areas they called home. Along the coast, in the mountains, and in the desert, these nations developed ways of life shaped by their surroundings:
- Every fall, the Miwok gathered acorns for food. They held a special
festival to celebrate the harvest.
- The Cahuilla held bird song ceremonies that lasted for days. Birds are
said to tell the people's history through their singing.
- The Yurok used mollusk shells called dentalia as money.
Many twenty-first century American Indians still call California home. Find out what these nations have in common and what makes each of them unique.
Target age group 8-11 -
Native Peoples of the Arctic (North American Indian Nations)
Long before Europeans explored the lands and waters above the Arctic Circle, several Inuit groups lived in this harsh, snowy landscape. They spoke different languages and developed unique ways to thrive in the ice and snow. These include making homes from whalebones and animals skins and hunting seals with spears through holes in the ice.
Many Inuit still live in the Arctic. While many aspects of Arctic life have changed, the Inuit are working to preserve their traditional practices and languages. Find out more about the history and culture of the Inuit.
Target age group 8-11 -
Native Peoples of the Great Basin (North American Indian Nations)
Long before Europeans came to the harsh landscape of the Great Basin, many nations of American Indians lived in the region. They had their own languages and cultures, and they knew how to survive in an area with extreme weather and little food:
- The Shoshone made powerful bows that could shoot an arrow
through a bison.
- The Paiute created duck decoys from reeds to help them hunt birds.
- The Washoe weaved baskets from reeds and willow.
The Great Basin is still home to many twenty-first century American Indians. They continue to weave baskets, hold traditional celebrations, and speak their native languages. Learn more about the past and present of the native peoples of the Great Basin.
Target age group 8-11 -
Native Peoples of the Plains (North American Indian Nations)
A long time ago, before the Plains region of the United States was divided up into states such as Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, this land was home to American Indians. Twenty-eight unique Indian nations built homes and gathered food in the Plains. They spoke distinct languages, set up political systems, and made art. They used the natural resources available in their region in order to thrive:
- The Wichita lived in houses made of grass. From the outside, they
like giant haystacks.
- Omaha and Ponca people wore caps made from eagleskin.
- Lakota men carved flutes to play songs for the girls they hoped to
marry.
Many American Indians still live in the Plains region. Explore the history of these various nations and find out how their culture is still alive today.
Target age group 8-11 -
Native Peoples of the Plateau (North American Indian Nations)
When explorers and traders moved west across the United States in the 1800s, they found many nations of American Indians already living in the Plateau region near the Columbia River. These nations had their own languages and governments, and they were experts at living in this land surrounded by mountains and filled with rivers:
- The Nez Perce could catch salmon with their bare hands.
- The Modoc wore woven skullcap basket hats.
- The Kootenai made paintings on huge rocks and cliffs using red
ochre and fish eggs.
Many Plateau Indians still live in this region. They work in a variety of industries, from fishing and logging to hospitality. Read more about the history and culture of the native peoples of the Plateau.
Target age group 8-11 -
Native Peoples of the Southeast (North American Indian Nations)
Who were the first people to call the southeastern United States home? Long before Europeans came to the region, American Indian nations lived off the rich and varied land. These peoples had different languages, governments, and cultures. Their traditions and heritage were shaped by the climate and terrain of the American Southeast:
- The Caddo traveled in canoes made from the wood of cypress trees.
- The Seminole wove baskets from sweetgrass and dyed them with
berries, nuts, and roots.
- The Cherokee danced with rattles made of turtle shell strapped to
their legs in what is called a stomp dance.
Twenty-first century American Indians still call the Southeast home. Find out what these groups have in common and what makes each nation unique.
Target age group 8-11 -
Native Peoples of the Southwest (North American Indian Nations)
When Spanish explorers came to the Southwest region of the United States in the 1600s, they found over 20,000 American Indians already living in the region. These American Indians were part of many different nations. They had their own languages and cultures, and they had developed ways to survive in the desert landscape:
- Pueblo people lived in permanent villages made of adobe brick.
- The Hopi had fifty different ways to cook and eat corn.
- The Navajo created colorful pictures from sand, cornmeal, and pollen.
Many American Indians still live in the Southwest. They make traditional jewelry, use their native languages, and run tourism programs at the Grand Canyon. Find out more about the history and culture of the native peoples of the Southwest.
Target age group 8-11 -
Native Peoples of the Subarctic (North American Indian Nations)
As early as the 1500s, fur traders from Europe began to arrive in the Subarctic region of North America. These traders were greeted by the many groups of native peoples already living in the region. These native peoples had their own languages, cultures, and methods for hunting and surviving in this land where it snowed 200 days a year.
Many native peoples still live throughout the Subarctic. They are working to revive their traditions and languages and preserve the land. Read more about the history and culture of the native peoples of the Subarctic.
Target age group 8-11 -
Cradle Me (Navajo/English) (Board Book)
The rich Native American tradition of carrying babies safely, comfortably and close to their mothers in cradle boards endures to this day. CRADLE ME celebrates Native American families and shows how they carry their babies.
English / Navajo Bilingual Edition
Target age group 18-24 months
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Loving Me (Hopi/English) (Board Book)
Whether it is a gentle kiss from mom, a hug from dad, a playful romp with an older brother, or reading with grandpa, babies and toddlers will discover the importance of family relationships in these charming photographs of Native American families.
LOVING ME features multi-generational family members loving and caring for a child, as they caress and tenderly show their babies and young children how much they are loved.
English / Hopi Bilingual Edition
Target age group 1-3
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Eagle Song (Puffin Chapters)
A contemporary middle grade story about confronting bullying and prejudice.
Danny Bigtree's family has moved to Brooklyn, New York, and he just can't seem to fit in at school. He's homesick for the Mohawk reservation, and the kids in his class tease him about being an Indian--the thing that makes Danny most proud. Can he find the courage to stand up for himself?
"A worthy, well-written novella." --Kirkus Reviews
"This appealing portrayal of a strong family offers an unromanticized view of Native American culture, and a history lesson about the Iroquois Confederacy; it also gives a subtle lesson in the meaning of daily courage." --Publishers Weekly
"With so many Native American stories set in the misty past, it's great to read a children's book about an Iroquois boy who lives in the city now. Bruchac weaves together the traditional and the realistic as Danny's ironworker father tells stories of his people's history and heroes, stories that give Danny courage to confront his school yard enemies and make friends with them." --Booklist
Target age group 7-10 -
Borders (Graphic)
BORDERS is a masterfully told story of a boy and his mother whose road trip from Alberta to Salt Lake City is thwarted at the border when they identify their citizenship as Blackfoot.
Refusing to identify as either American or Canadian first bars their entry into the US, and then their return into Canada. In the limbo between countries, they find power in their connection to their identity and to each other.
This much-anthologized story has been adapted into a gripping graphic novel by award-winning artist Natasha Donovan. A beautifully told tale with broad appeal, Borders resonates deeply with themes of identity, justice, and belonging.
Target age group 8-11 -
This Book Is Anti Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work (Empower the Future #01)
Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation.
Gain a deeper understanding of your anti-racist self as you progress through 20 chapters that spark introspection, reveal the origins of racism that we are still experiencing, and give you the courage and power to undo it. Each lesson builds on the previous one as you learn more about yourself and racial oppression. An activity at the end of every chapter gets you thinking and helps you grow with the knowledge. All you need is a pen and paper.
Author Tiffany Jewell, an anti-bias, anti-racist educator and activist, builds solidarity beginning with the language she chooses -- using gender neutral words to honor everyone who reads the book. Illustrator Aurélia Durand brings the stories and characters to life with kaleidoscopic vibrancy.
After examining the concepts of social identity, race, ethnicity, and racism, learn about some of the ways people of different races have been oppressed, from Indigenous Americans and Australians being sent to boarding school to be "civilized" to a generation of Caribbean immigrants once welcomed to the UK being threatened with deportation by strict immigration laws.
Find hope in stories of strength, love, joy, and revolution that are part of our history, too, with such figures as the former slave Toussaint Louverture, who led a rebellion against white planters that eventually led to Haiti's independence, and Yuri Kochiyama, who, after spending time in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII, dedicated her life to supporting political prisoners and advocating reparations for those wrongfully interned.
Learn language and phrases to interrupt and disrupt racism. So, when you hear a microaggression or racial slur, you'll know how to act next time. This book is written for EVERYONE who lives in this racialized society -- including the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life, the kid who has lost themself at times trying to fit into the dominant culture, the children who have been harmed (physically and emotionally) because no one stood up for them or they couldn't stand up for themselves, and also for their families, teachers, and administrators.
With this book, be empowered to actively defy racism and xenophobia to create a community (large and small) that truly honors everyone.
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Recommended by Oprah's Book Club, ESSENCE, We Need Diverse Books, ellentube, Brit+ Cp. PureWow, Teen Vogue, New York, USA Today, and TODAY.com
"In a racist society, it's not enough to be non-racist -- we must be ANTI-RACIST." --Angela Davis
Target age group 11-14 -
Sentence
In this New York Times best-selling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors. Louise Erdrich's latest novel, THE SENTENCE, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book.
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention," must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
THE SENTENCE begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.
"Dazzling... A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read THE SENTENCE and then do just that." --USA Today, Four Stars
Target age group 15 and up -
Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation
This inspiring picture book tells the true story of a woman who brings desperately needed water to families on the Navajo reservation every day.
Underneath the New Mexico sky, a Navajo boy named Cody finds that his family's barrels of water are empty. He checks the chicken coop--nothing. He walks down the road to the horses' watering hole. Dry. Meanwhile, a few miles away, Darlene Arviso drives a school bus and picks up students for school. After dropping them off, she heads to another job: she drives her big yellow tanker truck to the water tower, fills it with three thousand gallons of water, and returns to the reservation, bringing water to Cody's family, and many, many others.
Here is the incredible and inspiring true story of a Native American woman who continuously gives back to her community and celebrates her people.
Target age group 4-9 -
Immi's Gift
Two children half a world away from each other are connected in an unexpected way.
In a snow-covered world up north, a young girl is surprised when, instead of a fish on the end of her fishing line, there is a small, brightly painted wooden bird. Day after day, her fishing pole brings up more colorful surprises. When visiting the fishing hole for the last time, she drops a little wooden bear into the water.
Far away, a young boy walks along a beach in the hot, hot sun. He throws a colorful object into the water. Then something catches his eye. A small wooden bear washed up on the beach.
Karin Littlewood has crafted a simple, affecting story of how individuals around the world connect and enrich each other's lives. Her beautiful watercolor illustrations vibrantly depict the story's shifting locations--from the frozen Arctic to the tropical shoreline.
Target age group 4-8 -
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language.
They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years.
But now Joseph Bruchac brings their stories to life for young adults through the riveting fictional tale of Ned Begay, a sixteen-year-old Navajo boy who becomes a code talker. His grueling journey is eye-opening and inspiring. This deeply affecting novel honors all of those young men, like Ned, who dared to serve, and it honors the culture and language of the Navajo Indians.
"Non-sensational and accurate, Bruchac's tale is quietly inspiring..." --School Library Journal
"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find." --Booklist, starred review
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
Target age group 12 and up -
Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
For thousands of years, in the jungles of the Amazon, shamans have passed their wisdom of the medicinal values of rain forest plants from one generation to the next.
THE SHAMAN'S APPRENTICE tells the story of a Tirio Indian boy who dreams of one day being the tribal shaman, and how he and his people learn the importance of their own knowledge about the healing properties of the rain forest.
Target age group 4 to 7 -
Bowwow Powwow (Ojibwa/English)
Windy Girl is blessed with a vivid imagination. From Uncle, she gathers stories of long-ago traditions, about dances and sharing and gratitude. Windy can tell such stories herself, about her dog, Itchy Boy, and the way he dances to request a treat and how he wriggles with joy in response to, well, just about everything.
When Uncle, Windy Girl, and Itchy Boy attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers in their jingle dresses and listens to the singers. She eats tasty food and joins family and friends around the campfire. Later, Windy falls asleep under the stars. Now Uncle's stories inspire other visions in her head: a Bowwow Powwow, where all the dancers are dogs.
In these magical scenes, Windy sees veterans in a Grand Entry, and a visiting drum group, and traditional dancers, grass dancers, and jingle-dress dancers-all with telltale ears and paws and tails. All celebrating in song and dance. All attesting to the wonder of the powwow.
This playful story by Brenda Child is accompanied by a companion retelling in Ojibwe by Gordon Jourdain and brought to life by Jonathan Thunder's vibrant dreamscapes. The result is a powwow tale for the ages.
Ojibwa/English Bilingual
Translated by Gordon Jourdain
Target age group 3-7 -
Hearts Unbroken
New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school--and first love.
When Louise Wolfe's first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It's her senior year, anyway, and she'd rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, the 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.
From the newly formed "Parents Against Revisionist Theater" to anonymous threats, long-held prejudices are being laid bare and hostilities are spreading against teachers, parents, and students--especially the cast members at the center of the controversy, including Lou's little brother, who's playing the Tin Man. As tensions mount at school, so does a romance between Lou and Joey--but as she's learned, "dating while Native" can be difficult. In trying to protect her own heart, will Lou break Joey's?
Winner of an American Indian Youth Literature Award
Target age group 14 and up -
If You Lived With the Cherokee
The third title in a series about Native American people, this book reveals what it was like to grow up in a Cherokee family long ago.
Full-color illustrations by a Cherokee artist complement facts about Cherokee games, language, dwellings, medicine, names, and more.
Target age group 7-10 -
Rough Face Girl
In an Algonquin village by the shores of Lake Ontario, many young women have tried to win the affections of the powerful Invisible Being who lives with his sister in a great wigwam near the forest. Then came the Rough-Face girl, scarred from working by the fire. Can she succeed where her beautiful, cruel sisters have failed? A strong, distinctive tale with art to match.
Target age group 4-8 -
If I Ever Get Out of Here
Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force.
As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he still be his friend?
Target age group 12 and up
