Cheatham, K. Follis.  Life on a Cool Plastic Ice Floe.  J FIC Cheatham
During a time of growing Indian activism, a young orphan desperately tries to prevent a white family from adopting his sister.

Farley, Walter.  The Black Stallion Legend.  J FIC Farley
The black stallion helps save an Indian tribe during a time of disaster, thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy.

George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves. Y PB G //  Y Fic George
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Highwater, Jamake.  I Wear the Morning Star.  J FIC Highwater
Sitko, growing up in a hostile white world that tries to make him renounce his heritage as an American Indian, finds refuge in the pictures he paints.

Highwater, Jamake.  Legend Days.  J FIC Highwater
Abandoned in the wilderness after smallpox devastates her tribe, eleven-year-old Amana acquires from Grandfather Fox a warrior's courage and a hunter's prowess, gifts that sustain her as she watches the progressive disintegration of her people.

Hudson, Jan.  Sweetgrass.  J FIC Hudson/YPB H
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

Mayne, William.   Drift.  J PB M
Lost in the snowy forest, Rafe Considine is taken prisoner by two Indian women who teach him to live off the land.

Mead, Alice.  Crossing the Starlight Bridge.  J FIC Mead
Nine-year-old Rayanne's life turns upside down when her father leaves and she has to move off the Penobscot reservation and go to live with her grandmother.

O'Dell, Scott. Black Star, Bright Dawn.  J FIC O'Dell / Y PB O
Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured.

O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins. J FIC O'Dell / J PB O/ Y FIC O'Dell / Y PB O
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast.

O'Dell, Scott. Sing Down the Moon. YPB O
A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.

Rinaldi, Ann. My Heart is on the Ground : The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl.
Y FIC Rinaldi. In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver. J FIC Speare/ J PB S
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.

Wisler, G. Clifton. The Raid.  JPB W
When his little brother is carried off by raiding Comanches, fourteen-year-old Lige disguises himself as an Indian and joins a former slave in a bold rescue attempt.

Wosmek, Frances.  A Brown Bird Singing.  J FIC Wosmek
Left by her father to be raised by his white friends in a small Minnesota town, a Chippewa Indian girl is afraid he will return and take her away from the only family she remembers.

6/26/04