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• We Still Belong

  Day, Christine, 1993-

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  "Twelve-year-old Wesley Wilder is excited to have her poem, "We Still Belong: An Indigenous People's Day Poem!" published in the school paper. When the time comes, she's unprepared for some of the reactions she receives, for better or worse. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Place Like Home

  Bird, James, 1979-

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  "Twelve-year-old Ojibwe Opin has been living in his family's Ford Pinto for some time with his mother and impulsive older brother, Emjay, who often disappears during rest stops along their route across California to Los Angeles. Gathering…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weird Rules to Follow

  Spencer, Kim

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  "Weird Rules to Follow is like a photo album but in text rather than in pictures. It features short chapters narrated by 10-year-old Mia, and the story is based on the author's own experiences growing up in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Mia is an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Can Make This Promise

  Day, Christine, 1993-

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  "In this debut novel, a young girl discovers her grandmother's Hollywood aspirations and her mother's Suquamish and Duwamish ancestry. Edie knows that her white Dad is American and that her Native American mom was adopted into a white family, but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sea in Winter

  Day, Christine, 1993-

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  "A Native American (Makah/Piscataway) girl learns about her inner strength. Maisie Cannon's knee injury has disrupted her happy life in Seattle and kept her from doing what she loves most: ballet. Now, instead of practicing arabesques with friends,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Shoes

  Smith, Cynthia Leitich

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  "Six interrelated stories follow the everyday adventures of Ray Halfmoon, a contemporary Seminole-Cherokee boy who lives with his grandfather in Chicago. The writing is warm and lively; the situations are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant; and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rez Dogs

  Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

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  "Bruchac (Peacemaker), who is Abenaki, pens a spare novel-in-verse that richly addresses an array of subjects, including Wabanaki legends and beliefs, residential schools, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the difficulties of online schooling with insecure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian No More

  McManis, Charlene Willing, 1953-2018

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  "This novel (based on McManis's childhood) is set against the background of U.S. government actions beginning in the 1940s that terminated the status of many Native Nations and forced relocation of families living on reservations. With a stroke of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Birchbark House

  Erdrich, Louise

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  With this volume, Erdrich (Grandmother's Pigeon, 1996, etc.) launches her cycle of novels about a 19th-century Ojibwa family, covering in vivid detail their everyday life as they move through the seasons of one year on an island on Lake Superior. A…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Julie

  George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012

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  "This sequel to 1973 Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves continues the story of Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen, the girl who traveled across the tundra with her adoptive wolf pack. Miyax is now living in Kangik village with her father, Kapugen,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Two Roads

  Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

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  "Cal Black enjoys his nomadic life with his WWI-veteran father in Depression-era America. But then his father reveals their Creek heritage and enrolls Cal in an Oklahoma Indian boarding school. Cal, who always believed he was white, confronts this…Read moreRead more of this annotation