November Displays
First Lines on CSLA Blog
Promote your Book Fair
What Books are you Thankful For?
Books with a Thanksgiving Theme
More about this display on Mrs. G Talks Books
Native America Tribes Sign from:
The Advocate, Contra Costa College
Native American Bookmark from Western High School
November:
Native American Heritage Month
This is a good time to audit your collection about the Native Americans.
Places to look:
92 Biography
Crazy Horse
Sacajawea
Sequioyah
Sitting Bull
920 Collected Biography
940.54 Navajo Code Talkers
970.01 Ancient America
974.4 Native American Tribes
978 Western U. S.
979 California Missions
745 Crafts
306 American Indian Families
641 American Indian Foods
299 American Indian Mythology
394 American Indian Festivals
394 American Indian Games
394 Holidays - Thanksgiving
393 Burial Customs - Battle Fields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to protect Ancestral Graves in the United States
398.2 Native American Folktales
Fiction Books with a Native American Theme
Middle School
Author, Title
Alexie, Sherman The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
Bruchac, Joseph
Code Talker
Two Roads: A Creek boy in search of his place in the world
Rez Dogs
Cooney, Caroline The Ransom of Mercy Carter
Erdrich, Louise The Birchbark House
Hobbs, Will Beardance, Kokopelli’s Flute, Ghost Canoe
Karr, Kathleen Worlds Apart
Mikaelson, Ben Touching Spirit Bear
O’Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins, Zia, Sing Down the Moon
Paulsen, Gary The Night the White Deer Died, Canyons
Rinaldi, Ann My heart is on the ground : the diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux girl (Dear America Series)
Speare, Elizabeth George Sign of the Beaver
High School
Bennet, James Dakota Dream
Brooks, Martha Bone Dance
Bruchac, Joseph Bearwalker
Castaneda, Omar Among the Volcanoes
Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Durvin, William Wintering
Hillerman, Tony The Sinister Pig, The Ghostway
Jackson, Helen Hunt Ramona
Keehn, Sally I am Regina
Laxalt, Robert Dust Devils
Lipsyte, Robert Warrior Angel
Matcheck, Diane The Sacrifice
Preston, Douglas The Relic
Rostkowski, Margaret Moon Dancer
Sandoz, Mari The Horsecatcher
Wood, Nancy Thunderwoman: A Mythic Novel of the Pueblos
See Also:
For up to date fiction books on Native Americans, see the Social Justice Books website of recommendations.
The American Indians in Children's Literature site by Dr. Debbie Reese
Escape into History with Historical Fiction
Cookbooks, “What’s Cooking?”
Library Staff Recommendations “Gobble up a Good Book”