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• Legendary Frybread Drive-in

  Intertribal Stories

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  Set at a classic drive-in restaurant that seems to exist in every Native community, this anthology unites the stories of teens from all kinds of backgrounds through the shared theme of Native joy, with stories and poems reflecting hope, healing,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Faye and the Dangerous Journey

  An Ojibwe Removal Survival Story

  Sigafus, Kim,

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  In this gripping story with nonfiction backmatter Faye and her family begin a long, difficult journey from Wisconsin to Minnesota with thousands of other Ojibwe people to receive money the U.S. government owes them but does not deliver.

• The Others

  Isaacs, Cheryl,

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  Only weeks ago, Avery pulled her best friend, Key, from the deadly black water. The cycle from her family's Kanyen'kehá:ka (Mohawk) stories is finally broken, the black water is now a harmless lake, and her problems are far from supernatural: All…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for Smoke

  Cobell, K. A.

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  When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found…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 souls it needs…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry

  Johnson, Anna Rose

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  Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers-and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking.

• A Constellation of Minor Bears

  Ferguson, Jenny, 1985-

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  Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother, Hank, and his best friend, Tray. The indoor climbing accident that left Hank with a traumatic brain injury filled Molly with anger. While she knows the accident wasn't Tray's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rez Ball

  Graves, Byron

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  These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harvest House

  Smith, Cynthia Leitich

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  Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Warrior Girl Unearthed

  Boulley, Angeline

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  With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Those Pink Mountain Nights

  Ferguson, Jenny, 1985-

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  Over-achievement isn't a bad word--for Berlin, it's the goal. She's securing excellent grades, planning her future, and working a part-time job at Pink Mountain Pizza, a legendary local business. Who says she needs a best friend by her side?…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heroes of the Water Monster

  Young, Brian (Brian Lee)

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  Edward and Nathan, two Navajo stepbrothers, work with a young water monster named Dew to confront their past and save the world from a monstrous, enormous Enemy that is stealing water from all of the Navajo Nation.

• Mascot

  Waters, Charles, 1973-

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  Six eighth graders in Washington, DC, navigate through the conflict and division sparked by a school assignment focused on their town's Native American mascot.

• Eagle Drums

  Hopson, Nasug̊raq Rainey

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  Winter approaches, and there's much to do if PiKa's family wants to be prepared: hunting, fishing, gathering, and more. Now, PiKa must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping -- the same mountain where his two older brothers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Still Belong

  Day, Christine, 1993-

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  Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong-until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.