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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

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

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

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIN

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIN

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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2023

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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

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

Florence, Melanie

Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLO

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dancing Cat Books 2017

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

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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

Dimaline, Cherie

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...

Format: text

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

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

Banks, Lynne Reid

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling 2010

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BAN

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAN

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

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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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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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAV

Little Badger, Darcie

Summary: "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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIT

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOO

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

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOO

Rogers, Kim

Summary: "Ever since the day Mom and Dad brought Bob home from the car dealership, Bob has been a part of Katie's family. Bob has taken them all over, from powwows to vacations to time spent with faraway family. Bob has been there in sad and scary times and for some of the family's most treasured memories. But after many miles, it's time for the family to say goodbye to Bob ..."--

Format: text

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

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROG

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023

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

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

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC FER

Goade, Michaela

Summary: As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOA

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOA

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOA

Skurzynski, Gloria.

Summary: Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007

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Smith, Cynthia Leitich

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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

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

Johnson, Anna Rose

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Summary: When fourteen-year-old Norvia moves from Beaver Island to Boyne City in 1914, she has to contend with a new school, a first crush, and a blended family, but she also must keep secret her parents' divorce and her Ojibwe heritage. Includes author's note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOH

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Johnson

Dimaline, Cherie

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

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

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

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: "The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRU

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