Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids

BTSB Prebound(Heartdrum, 2021)

BTSB #: 057877 Available

Dewey: 808/SAges: 8-12   
AR: 5 MG

Genres:

Subjects: Powwows - Fiction Communities - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Short stories

Summary: This collection of intersecting stories bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.

Courage of Sarah Noble by Dalgliesh, Alice 

Paperback(Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000)

BTSB #: 255255 Available

Dewey: FAges: 6-10   
Lexile: 610

Genres:

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Fear - Fiction Connecticut - History|y1600-1775, Colonial period - Fiction

Summary: An eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

Great Death by Smelcer, John E. 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2009)

BTSB #: 827254 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 6.1 MG RC: 7.3 6-8 Lexile: 940 F&P: U

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Sisters - Fiction Survival - Fiction Voyages and travels - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Alaska - History - Fiction

Summary: As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged 13, and Maura, 10, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.

Indian no more by McManis, Charlene Willing 

BTSB Prebound(Tu Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 629471 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 720 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Native Americans - North America - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Family life - Fiction Moving - Fiction California - Fiction

Summary: When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.

Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell, Scott 

Paperback(Sandpiper, 2010)

BTSB #: 038212 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres:

Subjects: Native Americans - North America - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Islands - Fiction

Summary: Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.

Jo Jo Makoons : the used-to-be best friend [Jo Jo Makoons Volume: 1]by Quigley, Dawn 

Paperback(Heartdrum, 2021)

BTSB #: 736408 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   


Genres:

Subjects: Ojibwa Indians - Fictions Native Americans - North America - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn-about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Especially since Fern, her best friend at school, may not want to be friends anymore.

Jo Jo Makoons : the used-to-be best friend [Jo Jo Makoons Volume: 1]by Quigley, Dawn 

BTSB Prebound(Heartdrum, 2021)

BTSB #: 736424 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   


Genres: Chapter Books Multicultural

Subjects: Ojibwa Indians - Fictions Native Americans - North America - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn-about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Especially since Fern, her best friend at school, may not want to be friends anymore.

On the trapline by Robertson, David A. 

BTSB Prebound(Tundra, 2021)

BTSB #: 758937 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 560

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Grandparent-grandchild relationship - Fiction Cree Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Wilderness areas - Fiction

Summary: A boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom. A trapline is where people hunt and live off the land, and it was where Moshom grew up. Along the way, the boy finds himself imagining what life was like two generations ago-a life that appears to be both different from and similar to his life now.

Promising life : coming of age with America : a novel by McCully, Emily Arnold 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2017)

BTSB #: 622424 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.7 MG RC: 4.7 9-12 Lexile: 770

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Charbonneau, Jean-Baptiste,|d1805-1866 - Fiction Clark, William,|d1770-1838 - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Saint Louis (Mo.) - History|y19th century - Fiction West (U.S.) - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: All his life Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea and a French fur-trapper, has lived in two worlds: the Westernized world of his godfather, William Clark, and the frontier world beyond St. Louis--but he is troubled by the way Americans mistreat tribes like the Osage, Arikara, and Mandan, and as a man of mixed ancestry, he must ultimately choose which of the two heritages is more important to him.

Something to hold by Noe, Katherine L. Schlick 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2011)

BTSB #: 678619 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 680 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Race relations - Fiction Family life - Oregon - Fiction School stories Native Americans - North America - Fiction Forests and forestry - Fiction

Summary: In the early 1960s, Kitty is one of only two white children in her class on Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, where her father is a government forester.

Streams to the river, river to the sea : a novel of Sacagawea by O'Dell, Scott 

Paperback(Houghton Mifflin, 2008)

BTSB #: 686104 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 6.2 6-8 Lexile: 740

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Sacagawea - Fiction Lewis and Clark Expedition|d(1804-1806) - Fiction Shoshoni Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Overland journeys to the Pacific - Fiction

Summary: A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

Talking leaves by Bruchac, Joseph 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 163290 In Bindery

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 4.6 6-8 Lexile: 750

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Sequoyah,|d1770?-1843 - Fiction Cherokee Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Language and languages - Fiction

Summary: The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son.

Thunder Boy Jr by Alexie, Sherman 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2016)

BTSB #: 051042 In Bindery

Dewey: EAges: 3-6   
AR: 2.5 LG RC: 1.4 K-2 Lexile: 420 AD

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Personal names - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction

Summary: Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name ... one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name.

We are water protectors by Lindstrom, Carole 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 577118 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-6   
AR: 1.9 LG Lexile: 510 AD F&P: O

Genres: Folk Tales, Fables, Mythology

Subjects: Water - Fiction Water conservation - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Folklore

Summary: A picture book about standing up to protect one of nature's most sacred resources from harm.