Ancestor Approved edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) 

A volume of interconnected stories and poems set at a Native American Dance for Mother Earth Powwow celebration in Ann Arbor, Michigan, includes contributions by such new and veteran writers as Joseph Bruchac, Dawn Quigley, and Traci Sorell.

I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day (Upper Skagit)

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

The Sea in Winter by Christine Day (Upper Skagit)

After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blended family's midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up.

The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich  (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)

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.

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III (Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux))

Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.

Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis (Umpqua/Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde)

When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.

Jo Jo Makoons series by Dawn Quigley  (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe)

Other books in this series: Book #2: Fancy Pants

Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) 

Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.

Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) 

"Lily and Wendy have been best friends since they became stepsisters. But with their feuding parents planning to spend the summer apart, what will become of their family—and their friendship? Little do they know that a mysterious boy has been watching them from the oak tree outside their window. A boy who intends to take them away from home for good, to an island of wild animals, Merfolk, Fairies, and kidnapped children, to a sea of merfolk, pirates, and a giant crocodile. A boy who calls himself Peter Pan."--Amazon.com.

How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story by Tim Tingle  (Choctaw)

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.

Stone River Crossing by Tim Tingle (Choctaw)

When Martha Tom crosses the Bok Chitto River into the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory she meets Lil Mo, an enslaved boy whose mother is about to be sold, so Martha convinces Lil Mo's family to cross the river and be free.

Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young  (Navajo)

A novel inspired by Navajo culture follows the experiences of a boy whose summer at his grandmother's reservation home is shaped by his uncle's addictions and an encounter with a sacred being from the Navajo creation story.