Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: American Indian Youth Literature Award Winners & Honors
Herizon
Vandever, Daniel W.
Herizon follows the journey of a Diň girl as she helps her grandmother retrieve a flock of sheep. J... More
Becoming Miss Navajo
Begay-Kroupa, Jolyana.
As a little girl, Jolyana Begay-Kroupa dreamed of becoming Miss Navajo. After years of learning the... More
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
Sorell, Traci, author.
"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company'... More

Learning my rights with Mousewoman
Asoyuf, Morgan.
The tiny but mighty Mousewoman is a legendary figure in the oral and visual practices of Northwest C... More
I Sang You Down from the Stars
Spillett-Sumner, Tasha, 1988- author.
A Native American woman describes how she loved her child before it was born and, throughout her pre... More
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
Sorell, Traci, author.
"A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contempor... More
Healer of the Water Monster
Young, Brian (Brian Lee), author.
"Nathan, a young Navajo boy from Phoenix, Arizona, goes on an epic hero's journey."--... More
The Used-To-Be Best Friend
Quigley, Dawn, author.
"Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differen... More
The Sea in Winter
Day, Christine, 1993- author.
After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blende... More
Bowwow Powwow: Bagosenjige-Niimi
Child, Brenda J.
2020 Winner. "When Uncle and Windy Girl attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers and listens... More
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Maillard, Kevin Noble.
2020 Winner. Also available in Overdrive.. Using illustrations that show the diversity in Native A... More
Indian No More
McManis, Charlene Willing.
2020 Winner. When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate fro... More
Birdsong
Flett, Julie.
Also available in Hoopla. When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonel... More
Black Bear Red Fox: Colours in Cree
Flett, Julie.
A book demonstrating colors in English as well as in Cree, along with the pronunciation. ... More
Caribou Song: Atihko Nikamon
Highway, Tomson.
When Joe and Cody sing and dance for the caribou, something unexpected happens. ... More
All Around Us
Gonzalez, Xelena.
Also available in Hoopla. Finding circles everywhere, a grandfather and his granddaughter meditate ... More
Hidden Roots
Bruchac, Joseph.
Although he is uncertain why his father is so angry and what secret his mother is keeping from him,... More
I Can Make this Promise
Day, Christine.
Also available in Hoopla. "When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her atti... More

The Birchbark House
Erdrich, Louise.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojib... More
A Coyote Solstice Tale
King, Thomas.
Also available in Hoopla. Coyote is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Beaver, Bear, Otter, and Moose f... More
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
Marshall, Joseph.
Also available in Overdrive. Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels wit... More
How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story
Tingle, Tim.
A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever kn... More
At the Mountain's Base
Sorell, Traci.
"At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a... More
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom
Tingle, Tim.
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great ri... More
Fall in Line, Holden!
Vandever, Daniel W.
At a very strict school in Indigenous Nation, everyone but Holden stays in line until they reach th... More
Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light
Tingle, Tim.
Also available in Hoopla. Choctaw author Tim Tingle tells the story of his famly's move from Ok... More
Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People
Nelson, S. D.
Sitting Bull was one of the greatest Lakota/Sioux warriors and chiefs who ever lived. From killing ... More
Shanyaak'kutlaax: Salmon Boy
Marks, Johnny.
After a Tlingit mother gives her son a dried piece of salmon with mold on the end, he flings it away... More

Raven makes the Aleutians : adapted from a traditional Native story
Gibbons, Janine.
"After the flood, Raven falls from the sky far out to sea. How will he get back to the mainlan... More
The Grizzly Mother
Huson, Brett D.
Also available in Hoopla. "An engaging look at how the animals, people, and seasons within an ... More
Mission to Space
Herrington, John.
Go on a Mission to Space with Chickasaw astronaut John Herrington, as he shares his flight on the s... More
The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk.
Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because ... More
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
Sorell, Traci.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Journey through the year with a Cherokee family and their tr... More