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Boulley, Angeline

Summary: "Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC BOU

Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Summary: Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await just around the riverbend. She is joined by her playful pals, raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POC

Whitethorne, Baje.

Summary: Explaining a solar eclipse, a Navajo tells his grandson that when the sun dies the children of Mother Earth are called from the four directions to repaint the universe in all the colors of the rainbow.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHI

Campbell, Nicola I

Summary: Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, [2005] 2005

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAM

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOO

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOO

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salina Bookshelf, Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Atwater, Barbara J.

Summary: "Chulyen, a trickster raven, loses his nose in an embarrassing incident, but vows to get it back. With the help of magic powers, Chulyen devises a caper to retrieve his missing nose, and learns an important lesson along the way."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 ATW

Foster, Bob

Summary: John Smith, an English soldier, and Pocahontas, the daughter of an Algonquin chief, fall in love when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021

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Greendeer, Danielle

Summary: Wampanoag children listen as their grandmother tells them the story about how Weeâchumun (the wise Corn) asked local Native Americans to show the Pilgrims how to grow food to yield a good harvest--Keepunumuk--in 1621.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE GRE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Day, Christine

Summary: "When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAY

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Summary: A collection of Indian fairy tales that have been passed on to their children from generation to generation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1916

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 SCH

Summary: These stories and poems by both new and veteran Native American writers burst with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ANC

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Wood, Douglas

Summary: "A blizzard blows through Qyah, Alaska, and the school roof caves in! Luckily, Molly knows just how to raise the money to fix it ... a winter carnival! When Molly wants to build the most amazing maze for the carnival, she discovers she need a little help from her friends--and a lot of help from a map!"--Back cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOO

Robertson, David

Summary: "One summer day, Lauren and her little brother, James, go on a trip to the land with their Moshom (grandfather). After they've arrived, the children decide to fish for dinner while Moshom naps. They are in their canoe in the middle of the lake when the water around them begins to swirl and crash. They are thrown overboard and when Lauren surfaces she sees her brother being pulled away by the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2023

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