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Smith, Cynthia Leitich

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMI

Treuer, Anton

Summary: "Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who terrorizes Ezra and his friend Nora George. Ezra...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TRE

Vandever, Daniel W.

Summary: "Fall in Line, Holden! follows Holden, a young Navajo boy, through his day at boarding school. Although Holden is required to conform to a rigid schedule and strict standards of behavior, his internal life is led with imagination and wonder. Whether he is in art class, the computer lab, or walking the hall to lunch, Holden's vivid imagination transforms his commonplace surroundings into a world...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

Fairbanks, Ashley

Summary: "Before my family lived in this house, a different family did, and before them, another family, and another before them. And before that, the family who lived here lived not in a house, but a wigwam. Who lived where you are before you got there?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024

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Rogers, Andrea L.

Summary: "One Cherokee child celebrates the family tradition of gathering wild onions for a big community meal, a significant tradition among several southeastern tribes"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROG

Lindstrom, Carole

Summary: After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIN

Dimaline, Cherie

Summary: "In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dancing Cat Books 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DIM

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIM

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIM

David, Arihhonni

Summary: A grandfather shares with his grandson the story of Mouse and Squirrel, who are eager to join the lacrosse game between four-legged and winged animals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DAV

Dimaline, Cherie

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Summary: "Tiger Lily and her community, the Indigenous people of Neverland, possess a unique ability: they can choose to grow up. But for now, Tiger Lily is enjoying being thirteen, spending time with her grandmother and exploring alongside her horse and her friends. Then Tiger Lily uncovers a plot by two of Captain Hook's pirates, who are searching for a mysterious, powerful treasure. Determined to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DIM

Goodluck, Laurel

Summary: In this happy, vibrant tribute to Rock Your Mocs Day, observed yearly on November 15, author Laurel Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) and artist Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw) celebrate the joy and power of wearing moccasins—and the Native pride that comes with them. A perfect book for Native American Heritage Month, and all year round!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOO

Ferguson, Jenny

Summary: "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. ...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FER

Rundell, B. N.

Summary: The power of a promise made and a promise kept is realized when Jeremiah Thompsett comes of age and accepts the responsibility of fulfilling his mentor's long-held dream. Raised by an escaped slave in the midst of the Arapaho nation in the Wind River mountains, he now must track down the slave catchers that killed his adopted father and stole their cache. The Vengeance Quest takes him and his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Day, Christine

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Summary: "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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Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAY

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAY

Dimaline, Cherie

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Summary: Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIM

Goodluck, Laurel

Summary: Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOO

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOO

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE GOO

Dimaline, Cherie

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Summary: 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,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2021

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Goodluck, Laurel

Summary: When Russell tries to share exciting news with his large, Native family, he struggles with being heard, but after he ventures out on his own he realizes how much he loves his family.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

Robertson, Robbie

Summary: Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Goade, Michaela

Summary: Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a gorgeous celebration of the land she knows well and the powerful wisdom of elders. On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from the ocean, and in the forest, a world of berries. Salmonberry, Cloudberry, Blueberry,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023

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Smith, Cynthia Leitich

Summary: Cassidy Rain Berghoff didn't know that the very night she decided to get a life would be the night that Galen would lose his. It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white Midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SMI

Havrelock, Deidre

Summary: A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAV

Edgmon, H. E.

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Gem Echols hides their mental health challenges and mysterious dreams in the small town of Gracie, Georgia, but when a newcomer reveals a shocking claim of being reincarnated gods together, Gem's life takes a perilous turn as they embark on a deadly adventure, where their past and present collide.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EDG

Luby, Brittany

Summary: After his family moves to the city, young Ojiig misses the life he knew back home and the night sky full of stars until his parents help him find ways to make the city feel more like home.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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