American Indian Youth Literature Award winners and honors

Excellent writing and illustration by Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America, showing Native people in their full humanity.

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Book cover for "Black bear red fox"
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2018 Picture Book honor
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A book demonstrating colors in English as well as in Cree, along with the pronunciation.
Book cover for "Fall in line, Holden"
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2018 Picture Book honor
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At a very strict school in Indigenous Nation, everyone but Holden stays in line until they reach the door at the end of the school day.
Book cover for "Mission to space"
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2018 Picture Book honor
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Go on a Mission to Space with Chickasaw astronaut John Herrington, as he shares his flight on the space shuttle Endeavour and his thirteen-day mission to the international Space Station. Learn what it takes to train for space flight, see the tasks he completed in space, and join him on his spacewalk 220 miles above the earth
Book cover for "Love beyond body, space, and time"
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2018 Young Adult honor
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"Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time is an anthology of science fiction and urban fantasy stories starring First Nations and Metis characters with a LGBT and two-spirit theme."--
Book cover for "The marrow thieves"
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2018 Young Adult honor
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"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
Book cover for "Fire starters"
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2018 Young Adult honor
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Looking for a little mischief after finding an old flare gun, Ron and Ben suddenly find themselves in trouble when the local gas bar on Agamiing Reserve goes up in flames, and they are wrongly accused of arson by the sheriff's son. As the investigation goes forward, community attitudes are revealed, and the truth slowly comes to light.
Book cover for "Little You"
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2016 Picture Book winner
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Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns, has partnered with award-winning illustrator Julie Flett to create a tender board book for babies and toddlers that celebrates the potential of every child. With its delightful contemporary illustrations, Little You is perfect to be shared, read or sung to all the little people in your life-and the new...
Book cover for "Little you ="
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2016 Picture Book winner
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"This dual-language, poetic board book for babies and toddlers celebrates every child and the joy babies bring into the world. In English and Anishinaabemowin."--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Little you ="
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2016 Picture Book winner
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"This dual-language, poetic book for babies and toddlers celebrates every child and the joy babies bring into the world. In English and Plains Cree."--
Book cover for "Tu eres tu"
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2016 Picture Book winner
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Rhyming text celebrates the wonder of babies.
Book cover for "Tout petit toi"
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2016 Picture Book winner
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Cet album cartonné poétique destiné aux bébés et aux bambins célèbre tous les enfants et la joie que les bébés apportent dans le monde.
Book cover for "In the footsteps of Crazy Horse"
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2016 Middle School winner
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Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
Book cover for "House of purple cedar"
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2016 Young Adult winner
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Rose Goode, a Choctaw Indian girl living in pre-statehood Oklahoma, must endure a life plagued by white land-grabbers, who savagely beat her grandfather and burn down her school, an event in which she is the only student to survive.
Book cover for "Sitting Bull"
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2016 Picture Book honor
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Describes the life and accomplishments of the leader of the Sioux nation, detailing his resistance against the United States government, particularly at the Battles of Killdeer Mountain and Little Bighorn, and highlighting his legacy.
Book cover for "Dreaming in Indian"
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2016 Middle School honor
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A powerful and visually stunning anthology from some of the most groundbreaking Native artists working in North America today.
Book cover for "Dreaming In Indian"
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2016 Middle School honor
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A highly-acclaimed anthology about growing up NativeÑnow in paperback. *Best Books of 2014, American Indians in ChildrenÕs Literature *Best Book of 2014, Center for the Study of Multicultural Literature *2015 USBBY Outstanding International Book Honor List A collection truly universal in its themes, Dreaming in Indian will shatter commonly held stereotypes about Native peoples and offers readers a unique insight into a community often misunderstood...
Book cover for "Caribou song ="
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2014 Picture Book winner
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"...Set in northern Manitoba and told in English and Cree, brothers Joe and Cody go searching for the ateek (caribou) and become part of a magical adventure." --from publisher.
Book cover for "How I became a ghost"
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2014 Middle School winner
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A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.
Book cover for "Killer of enemies"
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2014 Young Adult winner
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"In a world that has barely survived an apocalypse that leaves it with pre-twentieth century technology, Lozen is a monster hunter for four tyrants who are holding her family hostage"--
Book cover for "Killer of Enemies (Killer of Enemies #1)"
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2014 Young Adult winner
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American Indian Youth Literature Award - American Indian Library Association

A post-Apocalyptic YA novel with a steampunk twist, based on an Apache legend.

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

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