Spirits, Fairies, and Merpeople
Native Stories of Other Worlds
Written by C.J. Taylor
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $19.95
From the heartbreaking Mi’kmaq story of Minnow, a mermaid in the Atlantic who must choose between two worlds to that of Water Lily and her five brothers, told by the Coos in British Columbia, creatures that inhabit fantastic realms appear in many First Nation stories. C. J. Taylor draws from those...
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Soft Rain
A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
Written by Cornelia Cornelissen
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 2, 2009
Price: $5.99
In Soft Rain, a 9-year-old Cherokee girl finds herself in the same situation as Sweet Leaf as soldiers arrive one day to take her and her mother to walk the Trail of Tears, leaving the rest of her family behind. It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating...
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Sorceress
Written by Celia Rees
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $8.99
The spellbinding sequel to Witch Child! "Startlingly convincing. . . . Once Agnes’s quest begins, readers will be hooked." — BooklistIt came to Agnes unbidden: a vision of Mary Newbury, a young woman driven from her Puritan settlement, accused of being a witch. It is an image of a life about...
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Lord of the Sky
Written by Linda Zeman-Spaleny
Illustrated by Ludmila Zeman
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $19.95
A breathtakingly illustrated tribute to the art and mythology of West Coast native culture.
In this exquisitely illustrated picture book, based on the animated short film of the same name, Linda Zeman-Spaleny transports young readers to a bygone time when nothing lived in the universe, when “out of the darkness came the...
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I Am Apache
Written by Tanya Landman
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $17.99
A young woman seeks to avenge her brother's death by becoming an Apache warrior — and learns a startling truth about her own identity.After watching helplessly as Mexican raiders brutally murder her little brother, fourteen-year-old Siki is filled with a desire for vengeance and chooses to turn away from a woman's...
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The Last Snake Runner
Written by Kimberley Griffiths Little
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $5.99
Praise for The Last Snake Runner:“The novel succeeds as a fast-paced adventure and as a meditation on the consequences of a clash of dissimilar cultures.”—
School Library Journal“Little’s strength is her depiction of daily life among the Acoma, especially the ceremonies performed by the now-extinct Snake Clan. . . .”—
BooklistA 2004–2005 New...
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When the Shadbush Blooms
Written by Carla Messinger and Susan Katz
Illustrated by David Kanietakeron Fadden
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 1, 2007
Price: $15.95
My grandparents’ grandparents walked beside the same stream where I walk with my brother, and we can see what they saw.
Today when a Lenape Indian girl ventures to the stream to fish for shad, she knows that another girl did the same generations before. Through the cycle of the seasons, what...
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All the Stars in the Sky
Native Stories from the Heavens
Written by C.J. Taylor
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $17.95
The heavens — the sun, the stars, and the moon — have inspired, intrigued, and mystified us from the beginning of time. We’ve always searched for ways to comprehend their beauty and their meaning. Mohawk artist and author C. J. Taylor has drawn from First Nations legends from across North America...
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X-Indian Chronicles
The Book of Mausape
Written by Thomas M. Yeahpau
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.99
Mausape belongs to a race that is losing its culture and to a generation that is losing its mind.Mausape, a young "X-Indian" man dreams he's about to compete against the King of All Fancy-Dancers — who, it turns out, is Elvis Presley in full Las Vegas regalia. Another teenage boy, concerned...
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Night of the Full Moon
Written by Gloria Whelan
Illustrated by Leslie Bowman
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $3.99
The night of the full moon is approaching and Libby Mitchell cannot wait! Nothing will stop her from visiting her best friend, Fawn, at the nearby Indian camp and attending a special ceremony there. When soldiers rush in and order everyone at the camp to move off the land immediately—they mistake...
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The Last Snake Runner
Written by Kimberley Griffiths Little
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $5.99
Praise for The Last Snake Runner:“The novel succeeds as a fast-paced adventure and as a meditation on the consequences of a clash of dissimilar cultures.”—
School Library Journal“Little’s strength is her depiction of daily life among the Acoma, especially the ceremonies performed by the now-extinct Snake Clan. . . .”—
BooklistA 2004–2005 New...
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Sorceress
Written by Celia Rees
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2003
Price: $8.99
For the legions of readers spellbound by WITCH CHILD, here’s the fascinating next chapter - thanks to a Native American descendant with an uncanny link to the past.
Agnes closed her eyes in the heat and steam of the sweat lodge. She woke to air that was dry and cold around her...
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