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.

MARCH TOWARD THE THUNDER
by Joseph Bruchac
Louis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Based on the author's great-grandfather; includes author's note.

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.

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.

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.

I AM APACHE
by Tanya Landman
A young Apache woman, Siki seeks to avenge her brother's death by becoming an Apache warrior – and learns a startling truth about her own identity.

HOUSE MADE OF DAWN
by N. Scott Momaday
The story of a young American Indian struggling to reconcile the traditional ways of his people with the demands of the 20th century.

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
by Scott O'Dell
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.

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.

STREAMS TO THE RIVER, RIVER TO THE SEA: A NOVEL OF SACAGAWEA
by Scott O’Dell
A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

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 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.