Young Adult People & Places
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation): Life in Native America
$12.99 Read more“Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defea… [more below]
- Author: Treuer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0593327578
- Language: English
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Thomas H. Begay and the Navajo Code Talkers
$15.95 Read moreThomas H. Begay was one of the young Navajo men who, during World War II, invented and used a secret, unbreakable communications code based on their native Din? language to help win the war in the Pac… [more below]
- Series: Biographies for Young Readers
- Author: Landry, Alysa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0821425064
- Language: English
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Exclusion and the Chinese American Story
$8.99 Add to cartUntil now, you’ve only heard one side of the story, but Chinese American history extends far beyond the railroads. Here’s the true story of America, from the Chinese American perspective.
A Junior Lib- Series: Race to the Truth
- Author: Blackburn, Sarah-Soonling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593567633
- Language: English
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Sky Wolf’s Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge
$14.95 Add to cartFrom healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today.
How do knowledge systems get passed down over generatio
- Author: Yellowhorn, Eldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1773216295
- Language: English
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story
$14.99 Read moreA Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
A National Book Award Longlist Selection
Jane Addams Children’s Book Award
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
A Booklist Editor’s Choice“Magnetic and chilling in its simpli
- Author: Stelson, Caren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9798765627457
- Language: English
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Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life
$18.99 Read moreThis powerful biography in poems tells the life of Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance.
A Claudia Lewis Award Winner for Poetry by the Bank Street Coll- Author: Nelson, Marilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316298026
- Language: English
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Turtle Island: The Story of North America’s First People
$14.95 Add to cartUnlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like… [more below]
- Author: Yellowhorn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1554519438
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad (the Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
$22.99 Add to cartA young reader’s edition of award-winning author Candacy Taylor’s acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers.
Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the G- Author: Taylor, Candacy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749498
- Language: English
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#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women
$12.95 Add to cartWhether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming… [more below]
- Author: Charleyboy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 12, 2017
- ISBN10: 1554519578
- Language: English
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Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
$0.00 Read moreCelebrating Diverse Voices: An Insightful Exploration of Latinx Identity
Dive into Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, a thought-provoking anthology filled with enlightening essays and vivid narratives from- Author: Fennell, Saraciea J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250763428
- Language: English
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A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
$19.99 Add to cartThis YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chroni… [more below]
- Author: Shepard, Ray Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 166268066X
- Language: English
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An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
$19.95 Add to cart2020 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, selected by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children’s Boo- Series: Revisioning American History for Young People #2
- Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0807049395
- Language: English
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Ikigai for Teens: Finding Your Reason for Being
$18.99 Add to cartA bestselling motivational book based on the Japanese concept of finding happiness in everyday life, now for young readers!
The Japanese people say everybody has an “Ikigai,” or a reason to live. Some
- Author: Garc?a, H?ctor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1338670832
- Language: English
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Only in New York: Weird and Wonderful Facts about the Empire State
$21.99 Add to cartThe next in this state-by-state strand of the best-selling 50 States series, Only in New York explores the most amazing sites, cities, history, and natural landscapes of the Empire State.
From the ro- Series: 50 States
- Author: Alexander, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0711281432
- Language: English
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Indigenous America
$8.99 Read more“A comprehensive and accessible history of the Indigenous peoples of North America.” – STARRED REVIEW, School Library Journal
Introducing a new nonfiction series that uncovers hidden histories of the- Series: True History
- Author: McDonald, Liam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0593386086
- Language: English
