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Native American Heritage Month: Teen Books

November is Native American Heritage Month! Learn more and celebrate with these books for teens.

Tacoma Public Library

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  • Thirteen-year-old Chase’s life and identity should be simple. He’s the goalie for his hockey team, the Eagles. He’s Kookum’s youngest grandchild. He’s a boy. He should like girls. Except Chase doesn’t like girls the way that the other boys…
    BookWinnipeg, Manitoba : HighWater Press, [2024] — YG BETWE
  • Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them...And he hates the local bully in his…
    BookMontclair : Levine Querido, 2024. — YF TREUE-A
  • It’s the year 2052. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire… But it’s about to get a whole…
    BookChronicle Books Llc 2024
  • Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can't afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood and the loss…
    BookMontclair, [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, 2024. — YF LITTL-D
  • Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. So when a local girl includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet giveaway to…
    BookNew York : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — YF COBEL-K
  • Chelsea is missing, but she's not gone... In this moving graphic novel, thirteen-year-old Reanna grieves the loss of her older sister. Can she find comfort through her family's Ojibwe traditions? It's been a year since Reanna's sister,…
    BookWinnipeg, Manitoba : HighWater Press, 2024. — YG LITTL
  • When small-town athlete Avery's morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook's Falls have long forgotten. The black water has been waiting. Watching. Hungry for the…
    BookNew York, NY : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — YF ISAAC-C
  • In a competition where seven girls from different guilds vie for the throne, Bell Silverleaf, a reluctant fifteen-year-old contender with a hidden talent for deception, intends to win and overthrow the kingdom, but finds she is not the…
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024] — YF KWAYM-A
  • Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer…
    BookToronto : Tundra, [2023] — YF DIMAL-C
  • I Sing the Salmon Home

    Poems From Washington State

    This anthology sings of salmon--lamented and praised, hooked, and netted, spawned out and dammed from home; of their magnificence and generosity, of how the fish continue to give and of what they gave. For this unique collection…
    BookChimacum, Washington : Empty Bowl Press, [2023] — 808.81 I17I 2023
  • Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep. Thankfully she has the other outcasts…
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — YF BOULL-A
  • Red Paint

    the Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

    LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu,
    Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha. With little more to…
    BookBerkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2022. — B LAPOI-S 2022
  • When a mysterious assault lands the brother of his mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian, a twenty-something Indigenous reporter, must pick up the threads of a life he's abandoned, returning to the Tuscarora reservation to…
    BookMontclair : Levine Querido, 2022. — YF GANSW-E
  • If Aiyana hears one more traditional Lakota story, she'll scream! More interested in her social media presence than her Native American heritage, Aiyana is shocked when she suddenly finds herself in a magical world-with no cell coverage!…
    BookLos Angeles : Curiosity Books, an imprint of Curiosity Ink Media, LLC, 2022. — JG THUND
  • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

    Life in Native America : Young Readers Edition

    Treuer, David,
    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 defeated-if anything, it is thriving as much…
    BookNew York : Viking, 2022. — Y 970.00497 T726HE 2022
  • Notable Native People

    50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers From Past and Present

    Keene, Adrienne, 1985-
    An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of…
    BookCalifornia : Ten Speed Press, [2021] — Y 970.00497 K251N 2021
  • Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright…
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021. — YF BOULL-A
  • 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…
    BookMontclair : Levine Querido, [2021] — YF LITTL-D
  • From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian…
    BookMontclair, NJ : LQ, Levine Querido, [2021] — Y 970.004 T726EV 2021
  • Native women have filled their communities with strength and leadership, both historically and as modern-day warriors. The twelve Native American and First Nations women featured in this book overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and…
    BookSummertown, TN : 7th Generation Native Voices, [2021] — Y 305.48897 C979N 2021