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Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story
By Anthony Perry, Danielle Greendeer, Alexis Bunten. 2022
In this Wampanoag story told in a Native tradition, two kids from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe learn the story of…
Weeâchumun (corn) and the first Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving story that most Americans know celebrates the Pilgrims. But without members of the Wampanoag tribe who already lived on the land where the Pilgrims settled, the Pilgrims would never have made it through their first winter. And without Weeâchumun (corn), the Native people wouldn't have helped. An important picture book honoring both the history and tradition that surrounds the story of the first Thanksgiving.Give Me Some Truth
By Eric Gansworth. 2018
A powerful new book from Eric Gansworth, author of If I Ever Get Out of Here, that speaks the truth…
on race, relationships, and rock from two unforgettable perspectives.Carson Mastick is entering his senior year of high school and desperate to make his mark, on the reservation and off. A rock band -- and winning Battle of the Bands -- is his best shot. But things keep getting in the way. Small matters like the lack of an actual band, or his brother getting shot by the racist owner of a local restaurant.Maggi Bokoni has just moved back to the reservation with her family. She's dying to stop making the same traditional artwork her family sells to tourists (conceptual stuff is cooler), stop feeling out of place in her new (old) home, and stop being treated like a child. She might like to fall in love for the first time too.Carson and Maggi -- along with their friend Lewis -- will navigate loud protests, even louder music, and first love in this stirring novel about coming together in a world defined by difference.If I Ever Get Out of Here: A Novel With Paintings (Arthur A Levine Novel)
By Eric Gansworth. 2013
"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not…
My Indian Name.Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white kids being nice to him -- kids like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he still be his friend? Acclaimed adult author Eric Gansworth makes his YA debut with this wry and powerful novel about friendship, memory, and the joy of rock 'n' roll.Ira sleeps over
By Bernard Waber. 1972
Ira is delighted with his first invitation to spend the night at his friend Reggie's house, until his mischievous older…
sister asks if he is taking along his teddy bear. For preschool-grade 2. 1972Sacajawea
By Joseph Bruchac. 2000
A novel of the Shoshone woman&’s epic journey with Lewis and Clark from an American Book Award winner: &“A grand…
adventure . . . not to be missed.&” —Kirkus Reviews Captured by her enemies, married to a foreigner, and a mother at age sixteen, Sacajawea lived a life of turmoil and change. Then in 1804, the mysterious young Shoshone woman known as Bird Woman met Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Acting as interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, Sacajawea bravely embarked on an epic journey that altered history forever. In this novel her extraordinary story is told in alternating chapters by both Sacajawea and by William Clark, including parts of Clark&’s original diaries. From a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Native Writers Circle of The Americas, it also includes a map showing Lewis and Clark&’s trail. &“Bruchac&’s fascinating story of the life of the woman who was pivotal to the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition is an outstanding example of historical fiction told from multiple perspectives.&” —School Library Journal &“The author adheres closely to journals kept by members of the expedition, creating characters who are both lifelike and compelling.&” —Publishers WeeklyCurtis Gets Ready to Dream: A Bedtime Story to Guide Your Child to Sleep
By Catrina Stiller. 2017
Make bedtime a breeze: &“A great way to help your little one learn some simple relaxation techniques.&” —Dana Obleman, author…
of The Sleep Sense Program Curtis is a young dog who does not like to go to bed. He argues with his mother and fights his bedtime. But then his mother establishes a routine for him that, when followed, earns him rewards. Curtis uses an imaginative method of progressive muscle relaxation to train his mind and body how to prepare for sleep. Through beautiful illustrations, the pretend play of the main character comes to life and encourages children to follow along—and drift off into dreamland.Tallchief
By Dinah McCall. 1997
A Native American love story featuring touches of mysticism and suspense from New York Times–bestselling author Sharon Sala writing under…
a pseudonym.Morgan Tallchief lives for the art he creates, but even that is haunted by the loss of the only woman he will ever love. When Kathleen Ryder mysteriously re-enters his life, the achingly sweet hunger that bound them together in the past returns as well.“Dinah McCall has waved her magic wand again . . . a spellbinding story of love that leaves the reader yearning for more.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “A brave, resilient heroine and a mesmerizing, larger-than-life hero who protects his own at all costs create a compelling, intensely emotional story of enduring love. Unexpected flashes of humor, a warm depiction of contemporary Native American culture, and intelligent writing add to its allure.” —Library JournalThe Berry Pickers: A Novel
By Amanda Peters. 2023
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST for the Atwood-Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeA four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking…
a tragic mystery that remains unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, is seen sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of a field before mysteriously vanishing. Her six-year-old brother, Joe, who was the last person to see Ruthie, is devastated by his sister’s disappearance, and her loss ripples through his life for years to come.In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as an only child in an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, while her mother is overprotective of Norma, who is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem to be too real to be her imagination. As she grows older, Norma senses there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she pursues her family’s secret for decades.A stunning debut novel, The Berry Pickers is a riveting story about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.The Return of Little Big Man: A Novel (Isis Cassettes Ser. #2)
By Thomas Berger. 1999
The legendary Jack Crabb takes another riotous romp through the Old West in an acclaimed novel that&’s &“impressive and delightful…
. . . very Mark Twain&” (Daily News, New York). Jack Crabb is now 112 years old, and he isn&’t done spinning yarns. In this sequel to Berger&’s beloved novel Little Big Man, one of literature&’s wiliest survivors continues his breathtaking tall tales of the Old West.Crabb claims to have witnessed most of the great historical events of the western frontier: hiding behind a wagon after a drunken Doc Holliday provokes the shootout at the OK Corral; joining Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley on tour with their international Wild West show; even taking tea with Queen Victoria when she came out of seclusion after a quarter century. No matter where Crabb lays his hat, he keeps his wizened, wry, and sharp commentary at the ready. The Return of Little Big Man is a sidesplitting novel of surprising emotional depth.This ebook features an all-new introduction by Thomas Berger, as well as an illustrated biography of the author including rare images and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection.Sing Down the Moon: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
By Scott O'Dell. 1970
Newbery Honor BookIn this powerful novel based on historical events, the Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort…
Sumner is dramatically and courageously narrated by young Bright Morning.Like the author's Newbery Medal-winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell's Sing Down the Moon is a gripping tale of survival, strength, and courage.There's a Bear in Your Book (Who's In Your Book?)
By Tom Fletcher. 2022
A new interactive adventure from the bestselling author of There's a Monster in Your Book—perfect for bedtime!YAAAWN! A sleepy little…
bear is in YOUR book! Can you help Bear get ready for bed?This warm, gentle adventure combines interactive fun with a night-time routine to help little ones wind down before they go to bed. Kids can help give Bear a bubble bath, rock Bear like a baby, and help Bear count sheep—all while being lulled to sleep alongside their new friend.Tom Fletcher is one of Britain's bestselling children's authors (in addition to being a rock star!), and his YouTube videos have been viewed tens of millions of times.An Ordinary Violence: A Novel
By Adriana Chartrand. 2023
Terrible things happen side by side with the ordinary. Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent…
to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. But when Dawn's seemingly perfect life in the big city implodes, she is forced to return to her childhood home and the prairie city that still holds so much pain for her and her fractured family. Cody is released from prison with a mysterious new friend by his side, and Dawn must follow increasingly sinister leads to uncover their nefarious plans to access a dangerous supernatural network. As the lines between right and wrong blur and dissolve, Dawn recons with trauma and violence, loss and reclamation in an unsettling world where spirit realms entwine with the living—and where it is humans who carry out the truly monstrous acts.Winter's Gifts (An Indigenous Celebration of Nature)
By Kaitlin B. Curtice. 2023
A vibrantly illustrated children&’s book about an Indigenous girl who finds awe in the resting and waiting that winter teaches…
us and shares with her friends how Creator&’s gift of gratitude can transform the way we see the world.Your thankfulness is your gift to Earth.Winter&’s Gifts is the tale of a young Potawatomi girl named Dani whose family celebrates the darkest season of the year by treasuring the slowness that winter brings. Dani&’s schoolmates think it&’s silly to think that Earth gives us presents, but on a magical snowy day, her family and Creator give Dani the courage to teach her friends about the gifts of winter—resting, remembrance, and gratitude. Can Dani help them receive winter&’s gifts?Winter&’s Gifts is a joyful and tender family story of honoring creation, the power of storytelling, and how a new perspective can transform us.Blood Sisters
By Vanessa Lillie. 2023
A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural…
Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister.There are secrets in the land.As an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the land's indigenous past, even as she&’s escaping her own.While Syd is dedicated to her job, she&’s haunted by a night of violence she barely escaped in her Oklahoma hometown fifteen years ago. Though she swore she&’d never go back, the past comes calling.When a skull is found near the crime scene of her youth, just as her sister, Emma Lou, vanishes, Syd knows she must return home. She refuses to let her sister's disappearance, or the remains, go ignored—as so often happens in cases of missing Native women.But not everyone is glad to have Syd home, and she can feel the crosshairs on her. Still, the deeper Syd digs, the more she uncovers about a string of missing indigenous women cases going back decades. To save her sister, she must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face—not even Syd.The truth will be unearthed.Zombies Shouldn't Sleep in the Dirt (The Care and Keeping of Zombies)
By Benjamin Harper. 2024
Zombies discover tips for a good night’s rest in this hilarious picture book! Ever wonder why zombies look a bit,…
um, tired? Maybe they’re just not getting enough sleep! Thankfully, we humans are here to teach them tips for a good night’s rest. Like, maybe find a comfy resting spot instead of taking a dirt nap. Or how about shutting off those zombifying screens before bedtime? With gross-out illustrations and funny rhymes, pre-readers and early readers alike are sure to be scared silly—and pick up some healthy sleep habits along the way. Written by Benjamin Harper (Bug Girl, Hansel & Gretel & Zombies), this picture book is perfect for bedtime or anytime! Other Books in the Care and Keeping of Zombies series: Zombies Shouldn’t Brush Their Teeth with Rocks Zombies Shouldn’t Eat Brains for Breakfast Zombies Shouldn’t Exercise After MidnightGuardian of the Hills
By Victoria Strauss. 1995
A young girl in Depression-era Arkansas discovers her Native American heritage when a series of strange and troubling spiritual events…
plague an archaeological excavation on sacred lands The mounds have stood for centuries, holy ground for the Quapaw Indians of rural Arkansas. Pamela and her mother, left destitute by the Great Depression and forced to move in with Pamela&’s well-to-do grandfather, are newcomers to the small town of Flat Hills. Ostracized by her high school classmates because of her Quapaw heritage—a culture she knows nothing about—the quiet, sad teenager silently wishes they had never come to this place. But while wandering alone through the countryside, she stumbles across the sacred hills and discovers an ancient artifact that fires up her grandfather&’s archaeological fervor. Soon a crew moves in to excavate, ignoring the objections of the local Native population, and Pamela begins to experience nightmares and terrible visions as an ancient evil reaches out from beneath the disturbed hallowed ground. When a string of inexplicable accidents befall the workers at the digging site, and thousands of crows gather ominously at its edges, a young girl who has always been kept sheltered from her family&’s past will have to make the most difficult decision of her life and embrace the strange and powerful destiny that she never dreamed could be hers. A tale of suspense, the supernatural, and coming-of-age, Victoria Strauss&’s Guardian of the Hills was selected by the New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age and was a South Carolina Association of School Librarians Junior Book Award nominee. An ingenious blend of historical fiction and dark fantasy, this is a page-turning tale that thrills and chills in equal measure.L'or des mélèzes (Roman)
By Carole Labarre. 2022
Pishimuss, une aînée, revient sur sa vie au sein de sa communauté. Elle raconte les amitiés, les amours, la chasse…
au caribou, le fleuve et la forêt. L’or des mélèzes est une série de tableaux, de moments de vie, d’instantanés. Sophie, la meilleure amie. Mathias, le fils qui meurt sans jamais mourir. Adeline, l’adolescente révoltée. Et puis, il y a Xavier, l’amour de sa vie. Xavier, dont l’histoire est portée sur le dos d’une rivière. Roman familial à l’écriture épurée, L’or des mélèzes capte des scènes des vies à la fois lumineuses et poignantes, sans pathos ni ressentiment.The Stick Game (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré #7)
By Peter Bowen. 2000
A Montana deputy takes on a mining company that&’s poisoning reservation children in a novel the Washington Post calls &“wonderful…
[and] wise.&” Something is rotten in the Fort Belknap Reservation. Life has always been tough on this barren stretch just south of the Canadian border, but now the children are getting sick. While playing his fiddle in a reservation bar, part-time deputy Gabriel Du Pré meets an accordionist who suspects the children&’s health defects and low test scores are connected to pollution from the nearby Persephone gold mine. Meanwhile, Du Pré investigates the disappearance of one of the afflicted children. When the boy turns up dead, the accordionist&’s theory gains credence. It wouldn&’t be the first time the rich men of Montana found wealth at the expense of the reservation&’s kids. But is there something more than greed and indifference at work? Something even more sinister? Du Pré will make it his business to find out. &“In other hands, melodrama could easily rear its head and trample the scenery, but Bowen has a firm grip on his large cast of interesting players . . . [in this] tale of grace vs. greed&” (Publishers Weekly).The Stick Game is the 7th book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
By Chelsea Vowel. 2022
Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is…
a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is that many of the pre-Contact ways of living are forever gone, so adaptation is necessary. But Chelsea Vowel asks, "Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways, will never come back, what if we simply ensure that they do?" Inspired by classic and contemporary speculative fiction, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo explores science fiction tropes through a Metis lens: a Two-Spirit rougarou (shapeshifter) in the nineteenth century tries to solve a murder in her community and joins the nehiyaw-pwat (Iron Confederacy) in order to successfully stop Canadian colonial expansion into the West. A Metis man is gored by a radioactive bison, gaining super strength, but losing the ability to be remembered by anyone not related to him by blood. Nanites babble to babies in Cree, virtual reality teaches transformation, foxes take human form and wreak havoc on hearts, buffalo roam free, and beings grapple with the thorny problem of healing from colonialism. Indigenous futurisms seek to discover the impact of colonization, remove its psychological baggage, and recover ancestral traditions. These eight short stories of "Metis futurism" explore Indigenous existence and resistance through the specific lens of being Metis. Expansive and eye-opening, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo rewrites our shared history in provocative and exciting ways.Sweet Dreams, Curious George (Curious George)
By Margret Rey, H. A. Rey. 2013
What will it take to get a monkey back to sleep in the middle of the night?George is so excited…
about reading Chicken Little, the new book from the library! But when George goes to sleep, he dreams that the sky is falling, just like in his book! What is a woken-up little monkey to do in the middle of the night? Ask for another story, jump on the bed, drink some warm milk? With the help of the man with the yellow hat and a telescope, he finds a starry solution that will turn his scary dreams into sweet dreams.With art in the style of H.A. Rey and engaging yet soothing text, this book will lull young readers into their own pleasant slumber.