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Teen Fiction Alexie
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2009, c2007 | 1st pbk. ed. | Little, Brown | 229 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Teen Area 1 available Teen Fiction Alexie |
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OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Recorded Books, LLC | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2012 | OverDrive/Libby | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | English | Available Online
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2012 | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | English | Available Online
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.
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Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available
Juv Fiction Smith
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | First edition. | Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | [vii], 310 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available Juv Fiction Smith |
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"Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride."--Publisher's description.
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Birchbark house volume 1
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Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Fiction 1 available
Juv Fiction Erdrich
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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1999 | 1st ed. | HyperionBooks for Children | p. cm. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Fiction 1 available Juv Fiction Erdrich |
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p2002 | Audio Bookshelf | 5 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2011 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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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. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...
4) Birdsong
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | Greystone Kids/Greystone Books | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm | English |
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"When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of [nature and art]. Can the girl navigate the changing seasons and failing health of her new friend?"--Publisher marketing.
5) Black sun
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Between earth and sky volume 1
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2021. | First Saga Press paperback edition. | Saga Press | 454 pages ; 23 cm | English |
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Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic. A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this...
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Ilsley Public Library - Picture Book Area 1 available
Juv Picture Child
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | Minnesota Historical Society Press | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Picture Book Area 1 available Juv Picture Child |
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"When Uncle and Windy Girl attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers. She eats tasty food and joins family and friends around the campfire. Later, Windy falls asleep under the stars. Uncle's stories inspire visions in her head: a bowwow powwow, where all the dancers are dogs. In these magical scenes, Windy sees veterans in a Grand Entry, and a visiting drum group, and traditional dancers, grass dancers, and jingle-dress...
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"As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII"--
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"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--
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Ilsley Public Library - Youth Fiction 1 available
Youth Fiction Bruchac
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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c2005 | Dial Books | 231 p. 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Youth Fiction 1 available Youth Fiction Bruchac |
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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
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From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?" to "What's it like for natives who don't look native?" to "Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?", and beyond, Everything...
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Ilsley Public Library - Teen Area 1 available
Fiction Boulley
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2021. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | 494 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Teen Area 1 available Fiction Boulley |
Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
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Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | English | Available Online
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2021 | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | English | Available Online
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Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Fiction 1 available
Juv Fiction Flying
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2017] | First edition | Crown Books for Young Readers | 218 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Fiction 1 available Juv Fiction Flying |
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From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us
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Ilsley Public Library - Picture Book Area 1 available
Juv Picture Maillard
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2019. | First edition. | Roaring Brook Press | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Picture Book Area 1 available Juv Picture Maillard |
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Depicts a modern Native American family in their daily life.
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Pickup trucks and eagles, yellow school buses and painted horses, Mother Earth and Sister Meadowlark all join together to greet the dawn. They marvel at the colors and sounds, smells, and memories that come with the opening of the day. Animals and humans alike turn their faces upwards and gaze as the sun makes its daily journey from horizon to horizon. Dawn is a time to celebrate with a smiling heart, to start a new day in the right way, excited for...
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How I became a ghost volume 1
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A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.
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Ilsley Public Library - Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award - Juvenile Fiction 1 available
Juv Fiction Day
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 264 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award - Juvenile Fiction 1 available Juv Fiction Day |
Available Online
Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Quill Tree Books | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2019 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--
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Ilsley Public Library - Youth Fiction 1 available
Youth 970.004 Dunbar-Ortiz
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | Beacon Press | ix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Youth Fiction 1 available Youth 970.004 Dunbar-Ortiz |
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Beacon Press | English | Available Online
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2019 | Beacon Press | English | Available Online
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Description
"Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics,...