37 Books in this collection
Native American and Indigenous Booklist
Here at Lee & Low Books, we publish a range of Native American, Indigenous and First Nations children's books, including many #ownvoices titles by Native authors and illustrators. Find leveled readers and award-winning picture books as well as middle grade and YA novels highlighting Native American cultures. We are proud to showcase stories that celebrate Native voices and experiences of Native communities and historically underrepresented or misrepresented in children's literature. See the fully designed list here in PDF form.
Themes & Categories
- Biography / Memoir
- Breaking Gender Barriers
- Childhood Experiences and Memories
- Classroom Activities
- Diversity
- Early Readers
- Emergent
- Empathy / Compassion
- Environment / Nature
- Families
- Forgiveness
- Friendship
- Geography
- Grandparents
- Holidays / Traditions
- Identity / Self Esteem / Confidence
- Indigenous / First Nations / Native American
- Integrity / Honesty
- Leveled Readers
- Middle Grade
- Multiple Ethnicities Represented
- Music
- Nature / Science
- Nonfiction
- Persistence / Grit
- Pride
- Realistic Fiction
- Similarities and Differences
- Tolerance / Acceptance
- Water
- Weather / Seasons / Clothing
- YA interest
- Bookrooms
- English
Books in This Collection
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At the Park
By Judy Nayer, Kayeri AkweksThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageAt the Park
By Judy Nayer, Kayeri AkweksView DetailsA Mohawk boy visits the park and uses his five senses to discover the natural world around him.
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Baby Rattlesnake / Viborita de Cascabel
By Te Ata, Siobhan Moroney, Mira ReisbergThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageBaby Rattlesnake / Viborita de Cascabel
By Te Ata, Siobhan Moroney, Mira ReisbergView DetailsBilingual English/Spanish. A Native American (Pawnee) tale of family love and forgiveness.
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Bears Make Rock Soup
and Other StoriesBy Lise Erdrich, Lisa FifieldView DetailsIn this collection of paintings and stories, painter Lisa Fifield and writer Lise Erdrich honor their Native American tradition in their own unique ways.
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Bowman's Store
By Joseph BruchacThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageBowman's Store
By Joseph BruchacView DetailsBowman's Store gracefully weaves themes from Joseph Bruchac's intimate knowledge of Native American cultures with the scenes from the past that have shaped his life.
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Buffalo Song
By Joseph Bruchac, Bill FarnsworthThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageBuffalo Song
By Joseph Bruchac, Bill FarnsworthView DetailsThe story of Salish Indian Walking Coyote and his efforts to save the vanishing buffalo herds from extinction in the United States during the 1870s and 1880s.
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Crazy Horse's Vision
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. NelsonCrazy Horse's Vision
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. NelsonView DetailsThe true story of the great Sioux warrior who, as a young boy, defies tradition and seeks a vision on his own in hopes of saving his people.
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Fancy Dance
By Leslie Johnson, Kayeri AkweksThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageFancy Dance
By Leslie Johnson, Kayeri AkweksView DetailsJoe is dancing the Fancy Dance at a powwow for the first time. He is nervous, but once the dance starts he knows just what to do.
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Giving Thanks
A Native American Good Morning MessageBy Chief Jake Swamp, Erwin Printup Jr.View DetailsA traditional Iroquois celebration of the beauty and spirit of Mother Earth, as told by a contemporary Mohawk chief.
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I Make Clay Pots
By Leslie Johnson, Bryn BarnardThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageI Make Clay Pots
By Leslie Johnson, Bryn BarnardView DetailsA Pueblo girl learns the traditional art of making pottery from her grandmother.
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I'm Heading to the Rodeo
By Emmi S. Herman, Claire Louise MilneThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageI'm Heading to the Rodeo
By Emmi S. Herman, Claire Louise MilneView DetailsOn her way to school one morning, a young Native American girl gets a taste of the rodeo adventure she daydreams about.
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Jim Thorpe's Bright Path
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. NelsonJim Thorpe's Bright Path
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. NelsonView DetailsA biography of the legendary Native American Jim Thorpe (1888--1953), voted the Greatest Football Player and Greatest Athlete of the Half-Century by two AP polls, focusing on his early childhood and how school and sports shaped his future.
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Living in an Igloo
By Jan ReynoldsThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageLiving in an Igloo
By Jan ReynoldsView DetailsMeet a young Inuit girl and her family. Learn why they sometimes live in an igloo and what life in an igloo is like.
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My Horse
By Karen Hjemboe, Anthony Chee EmersonMy Horse
By Karen Hjemboe, Anthony Chee EmersonView DetailsA Pueblo boy living on a reservation in New Mexico cares for and rides his horse.
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Rattlesnake Mesa
Stories from a Native American ChildhoodBy Ednah New Rider Weber, Richela RenkunThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageRattlesnake Mesa
Stories from a Native American ChildhoodBy Ednah New Rider Weber, Richela RenkunView DetailsA true account of a spirited Native American girl's experiences growing up on a reservation and attending Phoenix Indian School in the 1920s, written in an engaging, unconventional style and accompanied by 38 dramatic photographs.
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Sky Dancers
By Connie Ann Kirk, Christy HaleThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageSky Dancers
By Connie Ann Kirk, Christy HaleView DetailsJohn Cloud's father is a steelworker building skyscrapers in New York City, far away from their home upstate on the Mohawk Reservation.
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Stone River Crossing
By Tim TingleStone River Crossing
By Tim TingleView DetailsFrom the award-winning author of How I Became a Ghost, a tale of unlikely friendship and miracles. When Martha Tom helps Lil Mo and his family escape from the plantation across the river, it's just the beginning of a Choctaw adventure of a lifetime.
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The Blue Roses
By Linda Boyden, Amy CórdovaThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe Blue Roses
By Linda Boyden, Amy CórdovaView DetailsA modern-day Native American girl learns to understand the cycle of life after her grandfather dies.
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The Story of All-Star Athlete Jim Thorpe
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. NelsonThe Story of All-Star Athlete Jim Thorpe
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. NelsonView DetailsThis entry in the innovative "Story" line of chapter-book biographies focuses on Jim Thorpe, an exceptional athlete with natural talent and the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States.
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This Land is My Land
By George LittlechildThis Land is My Land
By George LittlechildView DetailsThrough his own words and paintings, acclaimed Native artist George Littlechild takes us back in time to the first meeting between his Plains Cree ancestors and the first European settlers in North America.
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What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?
By Richard Van Camp, George LittlechildThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWhat's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?
By Richard Van Camp, George LittlechildView DetailsAuthor Richard Van Camp asks his friends and family, "What's the most beautiful thing you know about horses?"
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Wolf Mark
By Joseph BruchacThis product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWolf Mark
By Joseph BruchacView DetailsLuke King, whose father is a black-ops infiltrator, uses the skills his father taught him to figure out his family's paranormal secret and save his kidnapped father and his own friends.