6.1/7 Birchbark House Erdich, Louise. Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
5.3/7 Blood on the River Carbone, Elisa. Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the ship the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. He's heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he had ever imagined. The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it's hard to know who's a friend or foe. As he learns the language of the Algonquin Indians and observes Captain Smith's wise diplomacy, Samuel begins to see that he can be whomever he wants to be in this new land.
5.9/9 Circle Unbroken Hotze, Sollace. Little red-haired Rachel Porter had been captured, abused, and raped by a renegade brave in an 1838 raid on a fort, then rescued by a kindly chief of the Dakota Sioux and raised as his daughter Kata Wi (Burning Sun). In 1845, at 17, with only blurred memories of her early childhood, she is recaptured and sent down the Missouri to her family, now strangers. There she finds a father who is still angry and unable to forgive what happened during the raid when two of his children were stolen and his wife died.
5.9/3 Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond Medicine Crow, Joseph. Meet Joseph Medicine Crow, a man raised in two worlds: according to the Crow Indian traditions and according to White man's rules.
5.5/7 Crooked River Pearsall, Shelley. When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
7.7/27 Every Fixed Star Kirkpatrick, Jane. Every Fixed Star brings readers the dramatic, fictionalized account of Marie Dorion: the real-life woman who was the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest. In Book Two of the series, Marie learns the value of a tender heart, the faith of distant friends, and the act of holding life's circumstances in open hands. Marie relocates her family to the Pacific Northwest territory's Okanogan settlement. The year is 1814 and, as is customary of her life out West, Marie faces constant challenges simply to keep her children clothed and fed. Through it all, Marie is tempted to believe that she doesn't deserve God's love in the everyday places. When blessings arrive, she struggles to accept them, fearing they will be followed by more difficult challenges. But ultimately, the threads of past friendships and their prayers, a faithful love, and her own service to others all lead her to God's gift of a full and abundant life.
5.1/5 The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: the Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl Turner, Ann. A diary of an Indian girl whose tribe is forced to move to a reservation.
5.2/3 Guests Dorris, Michael. Moss and Trouble, an Algonquin boy and girl, struggle with the problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area during the time of the first Thanksgiving.
4.4/8 I am Regina Keehn, Sally. 10-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Allegheny Indians, who kill her father and brother. She begins to agjust ot her new life as an Indian, but she can never forget her mother, and wonders if they will ever meet again.
6.2/6 Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy Bruchac, Joseph. Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historial note giving details of the removal.
5.0/5 Legend of Jimmy Spoon Gregory, Kristiana. This book portrays the adventures of a young white boy living among the Shoshoni Indians during the early frontier days.
4.9/2 Morning Girl Dorris, Michael. In alternating chapters, Morning Girl, a twelve-year-old Taino, an her younger brother, Star Boy, vividly recreate life on a Bahamian island in 1492--a life that is rich, complex, and soon to be threatened.
4.3/5 My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl - 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.
3.7/7 Second Bend in the River Rinaldi, Ann. In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him.
5.2/4 Sees Behind Trees Dorris, Michael. A Native American boy with a special gift to "see" beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty.
5.6/7 The Spirit Line Thurlo, Aimee. Crystal Manyfeathers is caught between two worlds: her life at a modern American high school, and her life with her Navajo people, where spiritual ceremonies and traditions prevail. In deference to her father, Crystal prepares for her upcoming womanhood ceremony. But days before it starts, a valuable rug Crystal has been weaving for the event is mysteriously stolen. Her best friend Henry believes the theft is punishment for Crystal's stubborn refusal to weave in the spirit line, a required tribute to the Navajo goddess Spider Woman. Despite their spiritual differences, Crystal and Henry launch a bold and dangerous search for the rug. Will they find it in time? And will Crystal at last learn to be at peace with her Navajo identity?
5.1/4 Standing in the Light: the Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 Osborne, Mary Pope. A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
5.7/9 Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee - Beatty, Patricia. With Pa off fighting in the Civil War, Lewallen Collier and his little sister are captured in a bloody Comanche raid. Admiring Lewallen's courage, the Indians give him the name Sings His War Song and try to teach him the ways of a young brave. But Lewtie dreams only of escape -- and of the day he can return to rescue little Eula Bee.
4.8/7 Weedflower Kadohata, Cynthia. After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
6.1/7 Where the Broken Heart Still Beats Meyer, Carolyn. Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four year old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
5.5/6 Winter People Bruchac, Joseph. As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.