K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet)

Leah Rose Kolakowski (Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe)

When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren’s missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered. Because the four members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation. And all of them—Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli—have a complicated history with Samantha. Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands and clear their names—even though one of them may be the murderer.

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Christine Day (Upper Skagit)

This YA short story collection, the next instalment of the Untold Legends series, contains fourteen short stories that center faeries of varying genders and cultures! Follow along as the protagonists start their first day in faerie boarding school, chase a faerie through Chang’an during the Tang Dynasty, descend into madness after spending countless nights plagued by the same faerie dream—and much more. Includes a short story by Christine Day (Upper Skagit).

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Jen Ferguson (Métis Nation of Ontario)

Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother, Hank, and his best friend, Tray. The indoor climbing accident that left Hank with a traumatic brain injury filled Molly with anger. While she knows the accident wasn’t Tray’s fault, she will never forgive him for being there and failing to stop the damage—and she can’t forgive herself for not being there either. Determined to go on the trio’s planned postgraduation hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, even without Hank, Molly packs her bag. But when her parents put Tray in charge of looking out for her, she is stuck backpacking with the person who incites her easy anger. Despite all her planning, the trail she’ll walk has a few more twists and turns ahead…

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Eric Gansworth (Onondaga)

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Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk)

When small-town athlete Avery’s morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook’s Falls have long forgotten: The black water. The water has been waiting, watching, hungry for the souls it needs to survive. As the black water haunts Avery—taking a new form each time—people in town begin to go missing. While Avery had never really connected to her Indigenous culture or understood the stories her Kanien’kéha:ka (Mohawk) relatives told her, the Elders may be the only ones who have the answers she needs. When Key, Avery’s best friend and longtime crush, is the next to disappear, she is faced with a choice: listen to the Kanien’kéha:ka and save the town but lose her friend forever… Or listen to her heart and risk everything to get Key back.

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Ambelin Kwaymullina (Palyku)

Bell Silverleaf is a liar. It’s how she’s survived. It’s how all Treesingers have survived, after they were invaded by the Risen and their gods. But now—thanks to some political maneuvering—Bell is in the Queen’s Test, one of the seven girls competing for the crown. If she wins, Bell can use the power to help her people and get her revenge on the Risen. But Bell doesn’t know how much she’s been lied to. She’s part of a conspiracy stretching back generations, and she’s facing much bigger dangers than the Queen’s Test. She’s up against the gods themselves.

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Darcie Little Badger (Lipan Apache)

Rovina Cai

In this prequel to the award-winning Elatsoe, readers delve into the childhood of Elatsoe’s grandmother, Shane, as she deals with the loss of her father and her grandparents. Shane buries her grief by helping others. Despite her family’s financial struggle following the destruction of their home in a catastrophic flood, Shane and her mother use their ghost dogs to locate missing persons. But then Shane’s mother and a local boy vanish. It’s probably related to their strange interaction with a fairy ring, which means they might’ve been transported to a different world—or a different time. Determined to find them, Shane teams up with her brother, her friends, and her not-so-trustworthy grandparent.

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Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation)

Rebecca Kunz (Cherokee Nation)

It’s the year 2052. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire… But it’s about to get a whole lot worse. When a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie’s museum saying that he’s from the future—and telling her what is to come—she refuses to believe him. But soon she will have no choice.

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Anton Treuer (Leech Lake Ojibwe)

Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis—he hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation, and he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who terrorizes Ezra and his friend Nora George. When Matt’s house burns down after a fight, Ezra instantly becomes a prime suspect. Knowing he won’t get a fair deal, and knowing his innocence, his family sends him away to run traplines with his grandfather in a remote part of Canada, while the investigation is ongoing. But the Schroeders are looking for him…

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Albert McLeod (Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation) with Elaine Mordoch and Sonya Ballantyne (Misipawistik Cree Nation)

Alice RL (Ojibwe)

Thirteen-year-old Chase’s life and identity should be simple. He’s the goalie for his hockey team, the Eagles. He’s Kookum’s youngest grandchild. He’s a boy. He should like girls. Except Chase doesn’t like girls the way that the other boys do, a terrifying fact that he hides from his peers. But Chase’s dreams are troubled by visions of a bear spirit, and the more he tries to hide, the more everything falls apart. With the help of an Elder, and a Two-Spirit mentor, can Chase find the strength to be proud of who he is?

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Tasha Spillett-Sumner (Cree)

Natasha Donovan (Métis Nation of British Columbia)

In this third volume of the Surviving the City series, Miikwan and Dez are in their final year of high school. Poised at the edge of the rest of their lives, they have a lot to decide on. But grief and anger take precedence over their plans when the remains of 215 children are found at a former residential school in British Columbia. Miikwan and Dez struggle with feelings of helplessness in the face of injustice. Can they find the strength to channel their frustration into action towards a more hopeful future?

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Jen Storm (Ojibwe)

Ryan Howe, Nickolej Villiger, and Alice RL (Ojibwe)

A lot has changed in the year since thirteen-year-old Reanna lost her older sister, Chelsea, who went missing on her way home from school. Each family member is struggling with the lack of closure of Chelsea’s unsolved disappearance in different ways, and Reanna’s mother moves to the city. Left behind on the reserve, Reanna and her little brother must move in with their dad. Reanna feels abandoned and alone… until lights begin flickering in empty rooms, leading her to wonder: Can she find comfort—or answers—in her family’s Ojibwe traditions?

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