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Creative Voices of the Indigenous Community
Mythology, Monsters and Me
Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Mythology, Monsters and Me
Native American Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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"Nathan, a young Navajo boy from Phoenix, Arizona, goes on an epic hero's journey."--Kirkusreviews.com
When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the...
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Sixth world volume 1
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Adult - Native American Heritage Month
Bewitching Reads - Teen
Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month
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Bewitching Reads - Teen
Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month
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"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than...
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Native American Authors: Youth Nonfiction (SCPL-YS)
Native American Heritage for Kids
Native American Heritage Month
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Native American Heritage for Kids
Native American Heritage Month
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"As a boy, Chester Nez was taught his native language and culture were useless, but he was later called on to use his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII"--
5) Me (Moth)
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2022 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
2023 March Book Madness at Blackhawk
Best Books of 2021 - Teen
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2023 March Book Madness at Blackhawk
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Moth, who lost her family in an accident, feels alone and uprooted, but when she meets Sani, a boy who is also searching for his roots, she finds a kindred spirit, and together they embark on a road trip that connects them to the ghosts of their ancestors.
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Indigenous People's Month Children
Native American Heritage for Kids
Native American Heritage Month (older kids)
Native American Heritage Month 2023: Kids
Native American Heritage for Kids
Native American Heritage Month (older kids)
Native American Heritage Month 2023: Kids
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Edward and Nathan, two Navajo stepbrothers, work with a young water monster named Dew to confront their past and save the world from a monstrous, enormous Enemy that is stealing water from all of the Navajo Nation.
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"By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code,...
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Fantasy Reads
OBD Native American Heritage Month (November) - YOUTH
OBD Rick Riordan Presents - YOUTH
Sibling Stories
OBD Native American Heritage Month (November) - YOUTH
OBD Rick Riordan Presents - YOUTH
Sibling Stories
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"Lately Nizhoni has been able to detect monsters, like Mr. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company. He's also alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Nizhoni knows he's a threat, but her father won't believe her. When Dad disappears the next day, leaving behind a message that says 'Run!', the siblings and Nizhoni's best friend, Davery, are thrust into a rescue mission...
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Dogs of World War II volume 4
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In September 1944 eleven-year-old Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, eagerly waiting for her older brother Leo to return from boot camp, and desperate to find the father that left when she was little; but Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear--and when the two young men go off to war Bear becomes the thread that ties them all together, and helps Billie to find a true friend.
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What better guides to help students learn about the world than teens of the world? This unique series looks at 12 countries, one of which is the Navajo Nation inside the United States, through the eyes of both expert authors and real-life teens who live in those countries. The author provides background information on the history, culture, customs, politics, and economy of the country, while the teen describes for readers their points of view on teen...
12) Shifting
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After bouncing from foster home to foster home since the age of five, almost-eighteen-year-old Maggie Mae Mortensen arrives in Silver City, New Mexico, to finish high school and try to escape her reputation as a trouble-maker, only to face ostracism in her new school and a band of evil Navajo Skinwalkers who want her dead.
13) After obsession
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When Alan, a half-Navajo in touch with the spiritual mysticism of his ancestors, meets Aimee, a gifted psychic in his new high school, they realize they've had precognitive dreams of each other and that they must confront an evil spirit that has been responsible for mysterious deaths in the river in their small Maine town for hundreds of years and which is now haunting Alan's cousin Courtney.
14) The Navajo
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Traces the history of the Navajo Indians, discussing origins, early history, experiences during cycles of colonialism, the Long Walk, the years of Hwéeldi, livestock reduction, challenges in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and other topics.
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"Through Thomas H. Begay's singular story, this richly illustrated biography for young readers describes aspects of Navajo history and culture and shows how a select group of Navajo soldiers used their native Diné language to invent and operate a secret communications system that was crucial to a US victory in the Pacific during World War II"--
16) Walks in Beauty
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Fifteen-year-old Anita Whiterock, a Navajo teenager living on a New Mexico reservation, struggles with conflicting forces as she tries to reconcile traditional Navajo ways with her desires for progress.
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Half-Navajo, half-white sisters Tess and Gaby are separated when Gaby drops out of college to join the army. Now as Gaby is deployed to Iraq, she asks Tess to care for Blue, the spirited horse that Tess dislikes. Tess struggles with her identity and with missing her sister, and she decides to spend the summer with her grandmother at sheep camp where tragedy strikes.
18) The spirit line
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When the special rug Crystal Manyfeathers is weaving for her kinaaldá, the traditional Navajo womanhood ceremony, is stolen from her loom, there are any number of suspects.
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"Samantha is a Navajo girl attending Atsá Mesa Community School on the Navajo Reservation. Her life has seemed pretty average when one day at school her body suddenly changes. As a ́Diné, Samantha must now prepare for the Diné womanhood ceremony called the Kinaaldá, a ceremony once performed by the Navajo deity, Changing Woman. With her life now filled with more drama than ever before, she's reluctant to participate in the demanding four-day...
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"There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal representatives with their languages involved as well.
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