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1) Powwow day
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Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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"Abandoned by her white father, thirteen-year-old Red Dove faces another lean winter with her Lakota family on the Great Plains. Willful and proud, she is presented with a difficult choice: leave her people to live in the white world, or stay and watch them starve. Red Dove begins a journey to find her true place in the world and discovers that her greatest power comes from within herself."--
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"In this young adult novel, fourteen-year-old Eva Brown is coping with difficulties at home and at school, most significantly her mother's alcoholism. When Eva's nohkum (grandmother) is hospitalized, her mother struggles to care for Eva and her younger brother. After Eva's brother wanders away, he is sent to live with a foster family and Eva finds herself in a group home. Furious at her mother's weakness, Eva struggles to adjust to the group home--and...
4) Anita & me
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Explore the world of 12-year-old Meena, who has moved to England with her Indian family. She is embarassed by her eccentric relatives and friends, and latches onto the town bad girl, rebellious Anita Rutter.
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"In this beautifully illustrated book, a young, determined Anishnaabe girl decides to go on a transformative journey into a forest on her traditional territory, in search of adventure. She is joined by a chorus of women and girls in red dresses--ancestors who tell her they remember what it was like to be carefree and wild too. Soon, though, the girl is challenged by a monster named Hate who envelops the girl in a cloud of darkness. With the creature...
6) Powwow day
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River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. She's been feeling isolated, and not dancing makes her feel even worse, but her community is willing to support her and help her heal both her physical body and her hurt feelings.
9) A world away
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Taken from her mother and shipped to England as an exhibit for Sir Walter Raleigh, Nadie, a Native American, is thrust into the boiling pot of brutish Tudor life. Her only protector is Tom, a young blacksmith who falls in love with her. Too soon, however, Nadie is forced back to her exotic lands to help the English colonize her people.
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