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November is Native American Heritage Month, but these books are available all year long, with new ones being published every week. Here are a selection of books that are written by and explore the lives of people in Native communities. This page will be updated periodically, but please contact the youth services department (youthserv@thetroylibrary.org) if you'd like additional titles.
Click on the cover images to see the book in our online catalog and request a copy. They may also be available through Libby, Overdrive, or Hoopla.
Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie; art by Ellen Forney
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
by Joseph Bruchac
Fire Keeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Give Me Some Truth: A Novel with Paintings
by Eric Gansworth
Harvest House
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Hearts Unbroken
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
House of Purple Cedar
by Tim Tingle
If I Ever Get Out of Here
by Eric Gansworth
Rez Ball
by Byron Graves
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
by Jen Ferguson
Warrior Girl Unearthed
by Angeline Boulley
Sci-fI/fANTASY
A Snake Falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger; illustrations by Rovina Cai
The Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
Walking in Two Worlds
by Wab Kinew
gRAPHIC nOVELS
A Girl Called Echo, 1 Pemmican Wars
by Katherena Vermette; illustrated by Scott B. Henderson; colored by Donovan Yaciuk
Four Faces of the Moon
by Amanda Strong
Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story
by David A. Robertson ; illustrations, Scott B. Henderson; colours, Donovan Yaciuk; with a foreword by Senator Murray Sinclair
Surviving the City
by Tasha Spillett; Natasha Donovan
This Place: 150 Years Retold
foreword by Alicia Elliott; stories by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm [and 10 others]; illustration and colours by Tara Audibert [and 9 others]
nON-fICTION
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition
by Anton Treuer
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese
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