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Author
Series
Marrow thieves novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the...
6) Mystic
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she's come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead"--Provided by publisher.
7) Horizon
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With the odds stacked against her and foes at every turn, will Daire, a Soul Seeker who can navigate the worlds between the living and dead, survive long enough to create the future she desires with Dace?
Author
Series
Killer of enemies volume 3
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of LEE & LOW Books Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Now settled in the Valley Where First Light Paints the Cliffs with her family and friends, Lozen turns her attention and her far-seeing abilities to protecting her community of refugees from the two remaining maniacal overlords of Haven, a ruthless assassin, and predatory genetically-modified monsters.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home.
11) Hunting by stars
Author
Series
Marrow thieves novels volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
12) Hearts unbroken
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
Author
Series
Killer of enemies volume 1
Publisher
Tu Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Years ago, seventeen-year-old Apache hunter Lozen and her family lived in a world of haves and have-nots. There were the Ones--people so augmented with technology and genetic enhancements that they were barely human--and there was everyone else who served them. Then the Cloud came, and everything changed. Tech stopped working. The world plunged back into a new steam age. The Ones' pets--genetically engineered monsters--turned on them and are now loose...
Author
Series
Killer of enemies volume 2
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Lozen and her family, on the run from the tyrants who once held them hostage, embark on a journey along a perilous trail once followed by her ancestors, where they meet friends and foes alike"--
15) Harvest house
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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