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Erdrich, Louise.

Summary: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERD

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Erdrich 2012

Dimaline, Cherie

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year-- ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument. Still grieving and severely hungover, Joan hears Victor's unmistakable voice coming from inside a revival tent in a gritty Walmart parking lot. He has the same face, the same eyes, the same hands. He doesn't recognize Joan, insists his name is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIM

Ferguson, Jenny

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Vermette, Katherena

Summary: While adjusting to a new home and school, Echo finds herself traveling back in time to 1816 in the middle of a Métis bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie just before a deadly battle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIR

Ferguson, Jenny

Summary: Jen Ferguson's powerful and beautifully written YA debut novel follows a demisexual Metis teen girl from a Canadian prairie town, who over one summer must grapple with an unwelcome figure from her past--as well as the questions about identity, secrets, confusion about her sexuality, and relationships that all make up who she is. In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FER

Vermette, Katherena

Summary: "In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the "road allowance" land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as "Rooster Town" in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also witnesses the trial of Louis Riel in Regina, Saskatchewan."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIR

Porter, Michelle

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "The story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POR

Bird-Wilson, Lisa

Summary: "When we first meet Ruby, a Métis woman in her 30s, she's a mess. She's angling to sleep with her therapist while also rekindling an old relationship with a man who was - let's just say - a mistake. As we will soon learn, however, Ruby's story is far broader and deeper than its rollicking, somewhat lighthearted first chapter. This is the story of a woman in search of herself, in every sense....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIR

Dorion, Leah

Summary: The story takes readers back to Canada's fur trade era by focusing on a Mé́tis family's preparations for a lobstick celebration and feast in the boreal forest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gabriel Dumont Institute 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 DOR

Leslie, Frank

Summary: Half-breed Yakima Henry steps in to help an older man being bullied by outlaws-and becomes a target of both bandits and lawmen alike.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LES

Kim, Hyo-eun

Summary: "A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIM

Franklin, Ruth.

Summary: What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Are Holocaust writings, by their very nature, exempt from criticism and interpretation? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be truthful--that is, faithful to the facts of history? Is a fictional account of the Holocaust, in the words of Elie Wiesel, "an insult to the dead"? In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 FRA

Vermette, Katherena

Summary: Echo Desjardins, a thirteen-year-old Métis girl, is struggling with feelings of loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family. 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIR

Dorion, Leah

Summary: "Leah Dorion captures the Métis way of life in the bison hunting days of long ago. She describes how the Métis interacted with the bison and their importance to all aspects of culture and how all parts of the bison were used in different ways."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gabriel Dumont Institute Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 DOR

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