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• Between the Pipes

  McLeod, Albert,

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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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where Wolves Don't Die

  Treuer, Anton,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art Thieves

  Rogers, Andrea L.

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sheine Lende

  a Prequel to Elatsoe

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Smoke

  Cobell, K. A.,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Moons

  Storm, Jen, 1986-

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unfinished

  Isaacs, Cheryl,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Liar's Test

  Kwaymullina, Ambelin, 1975-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Sing the Salmon Home

  Poems From Washington State

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Warrior Girl Unearthed

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Paint

  the Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Good Man

  Gansworth, Eric, 1965-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thunderous

  Smoker, M. L. (Mandy L.), 1975-

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  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!…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Life in Native America : Young Readers Edition

  Treuer, David,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Notable Native People

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

  Keene, Adrienne, 1985-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Firekeeper's Daughter

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Snake Falls to Earth

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask : Young Readers Edition

  Treuer, Anton

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Native Women

  Changing Their Worlds

  Cutright, Patricia J.,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation