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• Looking for Smoke

  Cobell, K. A.,

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  When a local girl includes mixed-raced Mara in a traditional ceremony to honor her missing sister, Mara thinks she might finally make some friends. Instead, another girl is found dead. This debut mystery is dark and tender, relevant, and pressing,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where Wolves Don't Die

  Treuer, Anton,

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  Ezra Cloud did not set the town bully Matt's house on fire. But as First Nation, his family knows he will never get a fair trial, and he can run as faraway as he wants--Matt will still look for him. This coming-of-age story blends thriller elements…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unfinished

  Isaacs, Cheryl,

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  This Indigenous horror novel centers around Mohawk runner Avery, who begins to experience creepy things like rising dark water, dragging footsteps, and faceless ghosts. People in her small town are going missing, and when her best friend Key is the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hearts of Fire and Snow

  Bowles, David (David O.),

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  Blanca Montes is inexplicably drawn to the new kid, Greg Chan, but little does she know that in his first life, Greg was Captain Popoca. Will the tragedy of their original union repeat itself? This swoon-worthy reimagining of an Aztec tale blends…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sheine Lende

  a Prequel to Elatsoe

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  This prequel to Elatsoe, which can easily be read by itself, weaves magic, mystery, and heart in the story of young girl searching for her missing mother and a local boy. Her determination to find them will see her and her friends traverse strange…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Other Side of Perfect

  Florence, Melanie,

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  Cody, who comes from an abusive household, flies under the radar while Autumn, a Cree teen, is lost in the popular crowd. As their paths cross, their stories come out and a tolerance turns into friendship. This realistic and sweetly simple story is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On a Wing and a Tear

  Smith, Cynthia Leitich,

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  In this road trip adventure, teens (plus an injured bat) drive cross country to the historic Great Ball Game and find mystery and danger along the way. Acclaimed Muskogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith is back with a heartwarming story about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Flicker

  Edgmon, H. E.,

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  This middle grade, postapocalyptic coming-of-age story features a group of teens, notably a girl named Millie, desperately searching for her Seminole grandmother and other survivors through the the hostile wasteland left in Appalachia.

• A Constellation of Minor Bears

  Ferguson, Jenny, 1985-

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  Molly can't stand her brother's best friend Tray--not since "the accident"--and now Molly is stuck on a postgraduate camping trip with him. From the author of The Summer of Bitter and Sweet comes a realistic fiction book about the intersectionality…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eagle Drums

  Hopson, Nasugraq Rainey,

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  Part cultural folklore and part origin myth of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, this magical middle grade novel follows a skilled hunter as he climbs a mountaintop and is confronted with the eagle god Savik. Its wonderful descriptions and leisurely pace…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mascot

  Waters, Charles, 1973-

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  When the 8th grade English class in football town Rye, VA, takes on an assignment to debate whether the team's mascot is problematic, it turns the community upside down. Told from several perspectives, this middle grade realistic fiction book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Earthdivers

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Written by Native horror master Stephen Graham Jones, this adult graphic novel series explores a future in which Indigenous outcasts try to rewrite history (and avoid the apocalypse) by going back in time and killing Christopher Columbus. Teen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Indian Kid

  a Native American Memoir

  Chuculate, Eddie, 1978-

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  In this coming-of-age memoir, readers follow Creek and Cherokee Eddie Chuculate's boyhood through rural Oklahoma and how he balances his family's deep-rooted traditions with an overwhelmingly white small town. The challenges he faces show the next…Read moreRead more of this annotation