THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN
by
Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
THE LONE
RANGER AND TONTO FIST FIGHT IN HEAVEN
by Sherman Alexie
Humorous and poignant stories about family, friends, basketball,
cars and everyday life on the Spokane Indian reservation.
WABI: A HERO'S TALE
by
Joseph Bruchac
After falling in love with an Abenaki Indian woman, a white great horned owl named Wabi transforms into a human being and has several trials and adventures while learning to adapt to his new life.
I
HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME
by Margaret Craven
A young priest is assigned to live and work in the tiny, remote Kwakiutl
village of Kingcome, in British Columbia.
A
YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER
by Michael Dorris
Half Indian and half Black, Rayona struggles to discover her own self-identity.
Her problematic family life is described by three-generations: Rayona,
her mother and her grandmother.
JULIE
by Jean Craighead George
In this sequel to Julie of the Wolves, Julie comes to live with her father
in an increasingly modern Eskimo village where she meets a handsome young
man who shares her love of ancient tradition.
BEARSTONE
by Will Hobbs
A troubled, fourteen-year-old Ute Indian boy is sent to work on a ranch
in the Colorado Rockies. There he finds a turquoise bear and begins having
strange dreams.
THE BIG WANDER
by
Will Hobbs
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.

KOKOPELLI'S FLUTE
by
Will Hobbs
Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico and through its power he learns about ancient Native American magic.
WEEDFLOWER
by
Cynthia Kadohata
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
PROPHECY ROCK
by
Rob MacGregor
Will Lansa visits his father, who is the tribal police chief on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, and learns about some sacred Hopi traditions while he helps investigate several murders.
SING
DOWN THE MOON
by Scott O'Dell
A Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe is forced to
march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
CANYONS
by
Gary Paulsen
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
MR.
TUCKET
by Gary Paulsen
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
SORCERESS
by
Celia Rees
Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
THE TRAP
by
John Smelcer
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.
THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER
by
Elizabeth George Speare
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
THE X-INDIAN CHRONICLES: THE BOOK OF MAUSAPE
by
Thomas M. Yeahpau
A collection of interwoven stories that chronicles the lives of several X-Indians – those Indians who have lost their traditional beliefs, traditions and medicines – as they grow up and become young men.

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