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1) Mystery road
Publisher
Mystery Road Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Detective Joe Swan returns to his small home town to investigate the murder of a teenaged Aboriginal girl. He finds himself alone and in growing danger as the towns secrets unravel.
Author
Series
Nampeshiweisit volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A young, Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling-and quickly finds herself at odds with the "approved" way of doing things-in the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series. The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations-until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons...
6) Stealing
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Removed from her family to live in a residential school when she was eight years old, Irene Couchie Dupuis, an Anishinabe girl, was confused, frightened, and homesick, but did her best to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on a true story about the author's grandmother.
8) Little Bird
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
For two years, Ellis traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut; some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope.
10) The Great Bear
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 2
Publisher
Puffin Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan travel back to Misewa, only to realize they've travelled back farther than expected. At school, Eli is being bullied, and while he tries to hide what's happening to him from Morgan, she knows something is wrong. Morgan herself is also in turmoil when she is given the phone number of her birth mother, and she struggles to know what to do with it. They...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This research sought to discover if digital storytelling can help rural and indigenous students in the High Amazon region of Peru to affirm their identities and preserve their culture, traditions, and practices. Using an organic research framework, I describe the personal story that serves as the background for this research, connecting my own experience with the larger social context. I explore the use of digital storytelling as an education and...
Author
Series
Misewa saga volume 1
Publisher
Puffin, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek...
13) Shi-shi-etko
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 860L
Language
English
Description
Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
Author
Publisher
Medicine Wheel Education
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"My Little Ogichidaa is inspired by Indigenous motherhood. It invites readers to explore the compelling dreams and hopes of an Indigenous parent for her soon-to-be-born warrior. The word Ogichidaa itself means warrior in Anishinaabemowin, and this beautifully illustrated book is a tribute to Indigenous families everywhere who are proudly raising their children to carry forward their culture, language, and love with resilience, strength, and kindness"--...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship. Cody's home life is a messy, terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Autumn is from a wealthy, loving Indigenous family, who is "in" with the popular crowd at school, even though it is hard for her to want to keep up.
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A Cree translation of Stolen Words. The book is in both Cree and English. Stolen Words is a picture book about a little girl who sets out to help her grandfather discover the Cree language that was stolen from him when he was sent away to residential school as a boy."--
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