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!

Easy (and EFB):
Across the Ice: How We Saved the Ojibwe Horse by Darcy Whitecrow (Candlewick Press)
An Anishinaabe Christmas by Wab Kinew (Tundra Books)
Benjamin Grows a Garden by Melanie Florence (Kids Can Press)
Brave by Weshoyot Alvitre (Kokila)
Bud Finds Her Gift by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Allida)
Can You Hear the Plants Speak? by Nicholas Hummingbird (HarperCollins Publishers)
Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers (Levine Querido)
Counting Winter by Nancy White Carlstrom (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
Dad, Is It Time to Gather Mint?: Celebrating the Seasons by Tyna Legault Taylor (HighWater Press)
Dance Fast by AR Cribbins  (Little, Brown and Company)
Dreaming Alongside by Monique Gray Smith (Orca Book Publishers)
The Echo People by S. D. Youngwolf (Lee & Low Books Inc)
The Fabulous Edweena by Edwin Dumont (Second Story Press)
A Family Tree by Staci Lola Drouillard (Clarion Books)
Fierce Aunties! by Laurel Goodluck (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Firefly Season by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum)
A Flock of Gulls, A Chorus of Frogs by Roy Henry Vickers (Harbour Publishing)
For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo (Norton Young Readers)
The Gift of the Great Buffalo by Carole Lindstrom (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
The Good Game by Arihhonni David (Holiday House)
Grandmother Moon by Wunneanatsu Lamb-Cason (Beaming Books)
Grandmother Mouse by Peter Thomas McKay (Medicine Wheel Press)
The Heartbeat Drum: the Story of Carol Powder, Cree Drummer and Activist by Deidre Havrelock (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
I Am Connected by Kung Jaadee (Medicine Wheel Publishing)
I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree Family by Na'kuset (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Indigenous Peoples' Day with Yasmin by Saadia Faruqi (Picture Window Books)
It's Powwow Time! by Martha Troian (Greenwillow Books)
Of the Sun: a Poem for the Land's First Peoples by Xelena González (Barefoot Books)
Raven's Ribbons by Tasha Spillett (Little, Brown and Company)
Sometimes I Feel Like an Oak by Danielle Daniel (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press)
Spring's Miracles by Kaitlin B. Curtice (Convergent Books)
Stitches of Tradition = Gashkigwaaso Tradition by Marcie R. Rendon (Heartdrum)
Toypurina: Japchivit Leader, Medicine Woman, Tongva Rebel by Cheyenne M. Stone (Little Bee Books)
To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities by Patricia Morris Buckley (Heartdrum)
Walking Together by Albert D. Marshall (Annick Press)
When Moon Blooms by Aida Salazar (Rise x Penguin Workshop)
When Sun Rises by Aida Salazar (Rise x Penguin Workshop)
Yáadilá! Good Grief! by Laurel Goodluck (Heartdrum)

Juvenile:
The Blossoming Summer by Anna Rose Johnson (Holiday House)
Blue Stars, Mission 1: The Vice Principal Problem by Kekla Magoon and Cynthia Leitich Smith illustrated by Molly Murakami (Candlewick Press)
Boarding Schools by Heather Bruegl (Cherry Lake Press)
Border Patrol by Joseph Bruchac (Reycraft Books)
Coming Home: a Hopi Resistance Story = Tutuqaykingaqw nima : hopisino pahan tutqayiwuy ep yorhomti by Mavasta Honyouti (Levine Querido)
Faye and the Dangerous Journey: an Ojibwe Removal Survival Story by Kim Sigafus (Stone Arch Books)
Fighting to Belong! Volume II, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History in the Twentieth Century by Amy Chu (Third State Books)
The Flicker by H. E. Edgmon (Feiwel and Friends)
A Guide to Native American Myths by Jennifer Lombardo (Cavendish Square Publishing)
Indigenous Cultures Today: Protecting Native Families and Practicing Cultural Traditions by Cayla Bellanger DeGroat (Lerner Publications)
Indigenous History series by E. A. Hale (Focus Readers)
Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone by Andrew Maraniss (Viking)
Kahoʻolawe: the True Story of an Island and Her People by Kamalani Hurley (Millbrook Press)
Maggie Lou Meets Her Match by Arnolda Dufour Bowes (Groundwood Books)
Navajo Code Talkers by Danielle C. Burbank (DK Publishing)
Nicole Aunapu Mann: First Native American Woman in Space by Carole Sexton (Lerner Publications)
Reasons to Look at the Night Sky by Danielle Daniel (Tundra Books)
The Ribbon Skirt by Cameron Mukwa (Graphix)
Sarah Ponakey, Storycatcher series by Sita MacMillan (Annick Press)
She Holds Up the Stars by Sandra Laronde (Annick Press)
Stealing Little Moon: the Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools by Dan C. Jones (Scholastic Focus)
The Summer of the Bone Horses by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (Amulet Books)
Tana Cooks series by Stacy Wells (Picture Window Books)
Who Was Wilma Mankiller? by Andrea M. Page (Penguin Workshop)
Wolf Club by James Bird (Feiwel and Friends)
The World's End by David Robertson (Tundra Books)
You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People edited by Stephanie and Sara Sinclair (Tundra Books)