People & Places - United States - Native American
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The Sea in Winter
$9.99 Add to cartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award: Middle Grade Honor Book! In this evocative and heartwarming novel for readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish, the author of I Can Make This Promise tells t
- Author: Day, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0062872052
- Language: English
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Josie Dances
$17.95 Add to cartJosie dreams of dancing at next summer’s powwow. But first she needs many special things: a dress, a shawl, a cape, leggings, moccasins, and, perhaps most important of all, her spirit name. To gather … [more below]
- Author: Lajimodiere, Denise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 4, 2021
- ISBN10: 1681342073
- Language: English
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Indian Shoes
$6.99 Add to cartThe beloved chapter book by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith about the love and adventures shared by a Cherokee-Seminole boy and his Grampa now has brand-new illustrations A pe
- Author: Smith, Cynthia L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 9, 2021
- ISBN10: 0064421481
- Language: English
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The Game of Silence
$9.99 Add to cartWinner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.
- Series: Birchbark House #2
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13, 2006
- ISBN10: 0064410293
- Language: English
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Maggie Lou, Firefox
$14.99 Add to cartMaggie Lou’s grandpa doesn’t call her Firefox for nothing. She’s always finding ways to make life more interesting — even if this means getting into big trouble.
When her grandfather Mosh finally
- Series: Maggie Lou #1
- Author: Dufour Bowes, Arnolda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: 3-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 1773068814
- Language: English
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Healer of the Water Monster
$19.99 Add to cartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Winner: Best Middle Grade Book! Brian Young’s powerful debut novel tells of a seemingly ordinary Navajo boy who must save the life of a Water Monster–and comes
- Author: Young, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0062990403
- Language: English
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The First Blade of Sweetgrass
$18.95 Add to cartMusquon must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish sweetgrass from other salt marsh grasses, but slowly the spirit and peace of her surroundings speak to her, and she gathers sweetgras… [more below]
- Author: Greenlaw, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0884487601
- Language: English
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The Legend of Michigan
$17.95 Add to cartLong, long ago, the ancient people of the forest gathered around warm fires and told the tale of a time long past, when the land known as “Michigane” was covered with ice and snow. For thousands of ye… [more below]
- Series: Legend (Sleeping Bear)
- Author: Noble, Trinka Hakes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 1585362786
- Language: English
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Why We Dance: A Story of Hope and Healing
$18.99 Read moreFrom Indigenous creative team Deidre Havrelock and Aly McKnight comes a powerful and exuberant story about the heritage, joy, and healing power of the Jingle Dress Dance–a perfect read-aloud picture … [more below]
- Author: Havrelock, Deidre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: 6-Feb-24
- ISBN10: 1419756672
- Language: English
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People Shall Continue
$11.95 Add to cartRepublished for its fortieth anniversary, this powerful story by renowned Acoma Pueblo poet and storyteller Simon J. Ortiz traces the history of Native / Indigenous people of North America from the ti
- Author: Ortiz, Simon J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0892391251
- Language: English
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Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants
$6.99 Add to cartFilled with lots of glitter, raised pinkies, and humorous misunderstandings, this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series–written by Dawn Quigley and illustrated by Tara Audibert–is filled with the
- Series: Jo Jo #2
- Author: Quigley, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: 10-May-22
- ISBN10: 0063015412
- Language: English
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Skysisters
$9.99 Add to cartTwo Ojibway sisters set off across the frozen north country to see the SkySpirits’ midnight dance. It isn’t easy for the younger sister to be silent, but gradually she begins to treasure the stillnes
- Author: Bourdeau Waboose, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 1550746995
- Language: English
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Who Am I?
$18.99 Add to cart“Who am I?” a young girl asks her mom as she snuggles close. “You are the fire that burns and the eagle that soars. You are the oak tree and the wild rose,” says momma. Written from an Indigenous pers
- Series: Own Voices, Own Stories
- Author: Julie Buchholtz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1534111816
- Language: English
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Rain Player
$9.99 Add to cartThe ancient Mayan belief that the future was divinely decreed and could not be changed is the basis for this original tale of a boy who must defeat the Rain God in a ball game to save his people from
- Author: Wisniewski, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 18, 1995
- ISBN10: 0395720834
- Language: English
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Jingle Dancer
$9.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith’s lyrical text is paired with the warm, evocative watercolors of Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu in this affirming story of a contemporary
- Author: Smith, Cynthia L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 006301811X
- Language: English
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Indian No More
$18.95 Add to cartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Winner – American Indian Library Association
When Regina’s Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on
- Author: Willing McManis, Charlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 1620148390
- Language: English
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Forever Cousins
$17.99 Add to cartIn this Native American story, Kara and Amanda are best-friend cousins. Then Kara leaves the city to move back to the Rez. Will their friendship stay the same?
Kara and Amanda hate not being together.- Author: Goodluck, Laurel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 1623542928
- Language: English
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Too Much: My Great Big Native Family
$18.99 Add to cartA little boy wants a chance to shine on his own but discovers that being apart from his large and lively Native family isn’t necessarily better in this heartwarming and humorous picture book.
When Rus- Author: Goodluck, Laurel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1665911263
- Language: English
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Grandma’s Tipi: A Present-Day Lakota Story
$18.99 Add to cartA young girl spends the summer at her grandmother’s home on the Standing Rock Reservation in this illustrated, heartwarming family story from acclaimed, award-winning author-artist S. D. Nelson.
Now- Author: Nelson, S. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1419731920
- Language: English
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Still This Love Goes on
$18.95 Add to cartA New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2022!
NAMED A BEST PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Reviews, Globe and Mail, and Chicago Public Library
“A love letter to- Author: Sainte-Marie, Buffy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 1771648074
- Language: English
