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Picture Books & Chapter Books - Middle Grade & Young Adult

Where the Wind Blows

Violet Duncan, Steph Littlebird

Violet Duncan

(Plains Cree and Taino from Kehewin Cree Nation) & Steph Littlebird (Oregon's Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes)

You Are the Land

Steph Littlebird

Steph Littlebird (Oregon's Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes)

The Sacred Stone Camp

Rae Rose, Aly McKnight

Aly McKnight (Shoshone-Bannock Tribes)

Brave

Weshoyot Alvitre

Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva)

Being Home

Traci Sorell, Michaela Goade

Traci Sorell (Cherokee) &

Michaela Goade

(Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Kiks.ádi Clan (Raven/Frog) from Sheet’ká)

At the Mountain's Base

Traci Sorell, Weshoyot Alvitre

Traci Sorell (Cherokee) &

Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva)

Contenders

Traci Sorell, Arigon Starr

Traci Sorell (Cherokee)

Arigon starr (Kickapoo)

Finding My Dance

Ria Thundercloud, Kalila J. Fuller

Ria Thundercloud

(Ho-Chunk Nation and Sandia Pueblo)

Tallchief

Maria Tallchief, Rosemary Wells, Gary Kelley

Maria Tallchief (Osage)

Loaf the Cat Goes To The Powwow

Nicholas DeShaw, Tara Audibert

Nicholas deshaw (Anishinaabe —Bois Forte Ojibwe, Migiziwan Odoodeman— Eagle clan)

Tara Audibert (Wolastoqey-french heritage)

She Persisted: Deb Haaland

Laurel Goodluck, Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger, Gillian Flint

Laurel Goodluck

(Mandan and Hidatsa, Tsimshian Tribe)

She Persisted: Maria Tallchief

Christine Day, Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger, Gillian Flint

Christine Day (Upper Skagit)

She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller

Traci Sorell, Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger, Gillian Flint

Traci Sorell (Cherokee)

Who Was Wilma Mankiller?

Andrea Page, Who HQ, Stephen Marchesi

Andrea Page (Lakota (Sioux))

What Was the Trail of Tears?

Sean Teuton, Who HQ, Dede Putra

Sean Teuton (Cherokee)

Buffalo Dreamer

Violet Duncan

(Plains Cree and Taino from Kehewin Cree Nation )

Indigenous America

Liam McDonald, Doug Kiel, Jennifer Sabin

Liam McDonald (Mohawk)

Doug Kiel (Oneida )

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation)

David Treuer, Sheila Keenan

David Treuer (Ojibwe)

Imaginary Borders

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Ashley Lukashevsky

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (Mexica)

Joseph Bruchac

Joseph Bruchac is an award-winning author, poet, novelist, and storyteller. He writes about Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American lives and folklore. He is the author of many children's books, including Pushing up the Sky and Code Talker. For a complete list of books by Joseph Bruchac — picture books to young adult — CLICK HERE.