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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Using illustrations that show the diversity in Native America and spare poetic text that emphasizes fry bread in terms of provenance, this volume tells the story of a post-colonial food that is a shared tradition for Native American families all across the North American continent. Includes a recipe and an extensive author note that delves into the social ways, foodways, and politics of America's 573 recognized tribes.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired...
3) Rez dogs
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Malian was visiting her grandparents on the reservation when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Now she's staying there, away from her parents and her school in Boston. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but on the reservation, everyone protects each other, from Malian caring for her grandparents to the local dog, Malsum, guarding their house. They always survive together.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
5) Small Wolf
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
[1994], c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with white faces and very different ideas about land.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"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 and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2010], c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Book Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Funeral Songs For Dying Girls is a young adult novel about an Indigenous girl who lives on the grounds of a cemetery with her widowed father."--
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...
12) Hearts unbroken
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...