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Read a Book by a Native American Author in Honor of Native American Heritage Month
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Peacemaker
by Joseph Bruchac
A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy.
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Surviving the City
by Tasha Spillett
Indigenous teens Miikwan and Dez are best friends that navigate living in the city together, but when Dez's grandmother gets sick, Dez runs away instead of going to a group home, leaving Miikwan and the community to try and find her.
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The Ghost Collector
by Allison Mills
In a debut inspired by Cree tradition, a girl from a family that can see ghosts decides to hoard the ghosts that approach her for help when her own mother passes away suddenly.
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My Name Is Not Easy
by Debby Dahl Edwardson
Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home.
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Firekeeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player places her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy.
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Apple : Skin to the Core
by Eric Gansworth
The Native American author recounts the story of his family, from the legacy of government boarding schools to his personal experiences fighting to be an artist balancing multiple worlds.
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A Snake Falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families.
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Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger
When Apache teen Ellie's cousin dies, her ghost dog Kirby tells her he was murdered, so with the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory of her great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, she must track down the killer and unravel the mystery.
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Hearts Unbroken
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
While working with the new photojournalist to cover the school musical's ethnically diverse casting, Muscogee (Creek) Louise Wolfe finds herself confronting the politics of being Native and the feasibility of dating while Native.
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