Register

Reader's Advisory: Native American and Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month

Learn about recent books to celebrate Native American and Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month. Books for children and tweens will be shared!

All books are print books unless otherwise indicated.

Easy books: Aloha Everything by Kaylin Melia George (Red Comet Press),  Auntie's Rez Surprise by Heather O'Watch (Second Story Press),  Being Home by Traci Sorell (Kokila),  Black Elk by Abby Badach Doyle (Enslow Publishing),  Circle of Love by Monique Gray Smith (Heartdrum),  Daughter of the Light-footed People: the Story of Indigenous Marathon Champion Lorena Ramírez by Belen Medina Cabot (Atheneum Books for Young Readers),  Kindred Spirits: Shilombish Ittibachvffa by Leslie Stall Widener (Charlesbridge),  The Legend of the Spirit Serpent by Adaiah Sanford (Reycraft Books),  Let's go! = Haw ̊kwa! by Julie Flett (Greystone Kids),  A Letter for Bob by Kim Rogers (Heartdrum),  Loaf the Cat Goes to the Powwow by Nicholas DeShaw (Nancy Paulsen Books), Maakusie Loves Music by Jaaji and Chelsey June (Nunavummi), Métis Like Me by Tasha Hilderman (Tundra Book Group),  My Little Ogichidaa: an Indigenous Lullaby by Willie Poll (Medicine Wheel Education),  Otter Doesn't Know by Andrea Fritz (Orca Book Publishers),  Rock Your Mocs by Laurel Goodluck (Heartdrum),  The Seventh Direction: A Legend of Creation by Kevin Locke (Medicine Wheel Publishing),  The Song that Called Them Home by David Robertson (Tundra Book Group),  Swift Fox All Along by Rebecca Thomas (Annick Press),  This Land by Ashley Fairbanks (Crown Books for Young Readers),  This Land Is a Lullaby by Tonya Simpson (Orca Book Publishers),  To My Panik: To My Daughter by Nadia Sammurtok (Inhabit Media Inc.),  Waci! Dance! by Sage Speidel (Red Deer Press),  What If Bedtime Didn't Exist? by Francine Cunningham (Annick Press),  What's In a Bead? by Kelsey Borgford (Second Story Press),  When Naiche Visits the Stars by Erika T. Wurth (Reycraft Books),  When the Stars Came Home by Brittany Luby (Little, Brown and Company),  When we gather = (Ostadahlisiha): a Cherokee tribal feast by Andrea L. Rogers (Heartdrum),  Why We Dance: a Story of Hope and Healing by Deirdre Havrelock (Abrams Books for Young Readers).   

Juvenile books: Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan (Nancy Paulsen Books),  The Case of the Rigged Race by Michael Hutchinson (and The Case of the Pilfered Pin) (Second Story Press for both),  Christopher Columbus and the Taino People by Kate Messner (Random House),  Clack, Clack! Smack! a Cherokee Stickball Story by Traci Sorell (Charlesbridge),  Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs (Crown Books for Young Readers),  Fighting to Belong!. Vol. 1, Asian American, native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history from the 1700s through the 1800s by Amy Chu and Alexander Chang (Third State Books),  Find Her by Ginger Reno (Holiday House),  The Grizzly Mother by Brett D. Huson (HighWater Press),  I Am Osage: How Clarence Tinker Became the First Native American Major General by Kim Rogers (Heartdrum),  Indigenous Peoples' Day by Heather L. Bode (Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing),  JoJo Makoons: Rule School by Dawn Quigley (Heartdrum),  Lei and the Fire Goddess by Malia Maunakea (and Lei and the Invisible Island) (Penguin Workshop),  Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival by Trina Rathgeber (Orca Book Publishers),  The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry by Anna Rose Johnson (Holiday House),  My Culture, My Gender, Me by Cassandra Jules Corrigan (Jessica Kingsley Publishers),  Native Americans in History: a History Book for Kids by Jimmy Beason (Rockridge Publishers),  Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz by Joseph Bruchac (Abrams Books for Young Readers),  On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia L. Smith (Heartdrum),  The Other Side of Perfect by Melanie Florence (Scholastic Press),  The Portal Keeper by David Robertson (Tundra Book Group),  Red Bird Danced by Dawn Quigley (HarperCollins Publishers),  Sioux Code Talkers of World War II by Andrea M. Page (Pelican Publishing Company),  The Story of the Native American Rights Movement by Sophie Washburne (Cavendish Square Publishing),  Warrior Girl by Carmen Tafolla (Nancy Paulsen Books),  What Is Land Back? by Heather Bruegl (Cherry Lake Press).