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Picture Book Winner
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Herizon
Daniel W Vandever - South of Sunrise Creative
Format: Print book
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Herizon follows the journey of a Diné girl as she helps her grandmother retrieve a flock of sheep. Join in her venture across land and water with the help of a magical scarf that will expand your imagination and transform what you thought possible. The inspiring story celebrates creativity... |
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Picture Honor Books
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Becoming Miss Navajo
Jolyana Begay-Kroupa - Salina Bookshelf
Format: Print book
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As a little girl, Jolyana Begay-Kroupa dreamed of becoming Miss Navajo. After years of learning the language, culture, and traditions, her chance finally comes to take on the important role. The skills she learned help her in tough competitions but will they be enough to earn her the crown... |
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Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
Traci Sorell - Millbrook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work. Cherokee author Traci Sorell and Mtis illustrator Natasha Donovan... |
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Learning My Rights with Mousewoman
Format: Book
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The tiny but mighty Mousewoman is a legendary figure in the oral and visual practices of Northwest Coast Indigenous cultures. She is both grandmother and oracle, able to travel in and out of the spirit world. Mousewoman sits on young people’s shoulders in crucial times, whispering... |
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I Sang You Down from the Stars
Tasha Spillett-Sumner - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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As she waits for the arrival of her new baby, a mother-to-be gathers gifts to create a sacred bundle. A white feather, cedar and sage, a stone from the river...Each addition to the bundle will offer the new baby strength and connection to tradition, family, and community. As they grow together,... |
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We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
Traci Sorell - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future.... |
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Best Middle Grade Book Winner
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Healer of the Water Monster
Brian Young - Heartdrum
Format: Hardcover
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Brian Young's powerful debut novel tells of a seemingly ordinary Navajo boy who must save the life of a Water Monster - and comes to realize he's a hero at heart. When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's... |
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Middle Grade Honor Book
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The Sea in Winter: Library Edition
Christine Day - Blackstone Pub; Unabridged edition
Format: Audiobook
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In this evocative and heartwarming novel for readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish, the author of I Can Make This Promise tells the story of a Native American girl struggling to find her joy again.Its been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt... |
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Indigenous Peoples' Day
Katrina M. Phillips
Format: Paperback
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Indigenous Peoples' Day is about celebrating! The second Monday in October is a day to honor Native American people, their histories, and cultures. People mark the day with food, dancing, and songs. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated... |
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Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend
Dawn Quigley - Heartdrum
Format: Paperback
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Hello/Boozhoo - meet Jo Jo Makoons! Full of pride, joy, and plenty of humor, this first book in an all-new chapter book series by Dawn Quigley celebrates a spunky young Ojibwe girl who loves who she is. Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little... |
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Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language Protector
Diane Wilson - Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Ella Cara Deloria loved to listen to her family tell stories in the Dakota language. She recorded many American Indian peoples' stories and languages and shared them with everyone. She helped protect her people's language for future generations. She also wrote many stories of her own.... |
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Peggy Flanagan: Ogimaa Kwe, Lieutenant Governor
Jessica Engelking - Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Peggy Flanagan is the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. This is the second-highest office in the state. She is the first Native woman to hold such a high elected statewide office in the United States. Her whole life she knew that the school system doesn't tell American Indian stories... |
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Young Adult WInner
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Apple: (Skin to the Core)
Eric Gansworth
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NOW IN PAPERBACK!. WINNER, AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD HONOR, MICHAL L. PRINTZ AWARD LONGLIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. TIME 10 Best YA and Children's Books of the Year NPR Best of the Year Shelf Awareness Best of the YearPublishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall Amazon Bes |
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Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, she puts her future on hold... |
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Elatsoe
Darcie Little Badger - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream.There are some differences. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces... |
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Hunting by Stars
Cherie Dimaline - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored... |
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Soldiers Unknown
Chag Lowry - Great Oak Press
Format: Paperback
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The Klamath River, 1918. The native Yurok people of Northern California have been untouched by the savage world war raging in Europe--until now. Three cousins are called to serve a nation that has given little but cruelty to their people. Thrust into battle on the Western Front, these young... |
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