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Indians of North America

All books can be found by the author's last name in the Juvenile Fiction area unless noted on the booklist.

Banks, Lynne Reid (J)
The Key To The Indian
As Omri, his father, and other members of his family learn more about the cupboard in his room, together and separately they are caught up in several dangerous adventures that reveal more about its powers.

Bruchac, Joseph (J My Name Is)
The Journal Of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.

Erdrich, Louise (J)
The Birchbark House
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.

Hassinger, Peter (J)
The Book Of Alfar: A Tale Of The Hudson Highlands
In the legend-filled woods overlooking the Hudson River, an Algonquin girl is kidnapped by an evil dwarf whose grandson, aided by an eleven-year-old boy, a goatherd, and figures from the past, sets out to rescue her.

Matthaei, Gay (J)
The Sketchbook Of Thomas Blue Eagle
The continuing fictional account of a Lakota Indian who, after being educated in the white man's ways, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and travels around America and Europe.

Pryor, Bonnie (J)
Thomas In Danger
Having lost their home when the Revolutionary War reached their part of rural Pennsylvania, Thomas and his family start a new life running an inn in Philadelphia, where Thomas finds new danger that takes him into captivity among the Iroquois. Sequel to: Thomas

Rinaldi, Ann. (J Dear America)
My Heart Is On The Ground: The Diary Of Nannie Little Rose, A Sioux Girl
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.

Skurzynski, Gloria (J)
Ghost Horses
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.

Smith, Cynthia Leitich (J)
Indian Shoes
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.

Turner, Ann Warren (J Dear America)
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary Of Sarah Nita, A Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864
In her first book for the "Dear America" series, acclaimed historical fiction writer Ann Turner brings readers the deeply affecting story of a Navajo girl on the Long Walk.

Whelan, Gloria (J)
Miranda's Last Stand
Because the Sioux had killed her Papa at the Battle of Little Bighorn, eleven-year-old Miranda struggles with her mama's prejudice and her own experiences with Indians in the Wild West Show.

Bruchac, Joseph (YA)
The Winter People
As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.

Burks, Brian (YAPB)
Walks Alone
After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone, an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to survive and rejoin the refugee band. 2000, c1998

Matcheck, Diane (YA)
The Sacrifice
When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a fifteen-year-old sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.

Osborne, Mary Pope (YA & also sound recording)
Adaline Falling Star
Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company.