2012, Written by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2013), Stonewall Book Award (2013), Pura Belpré Award (2013), Lamda Literary Award Winner (2013) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is a wonderful novel about two Mexican-American boys finding both themselves and each other in 1980's El Paso.
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5/5/2017 0 Comments The Birchbark House1999, Written & Illustrated by Louise Erdrich National Book Award Finalist (1999), American Indian Youth Literature Award (2006) Omakayas is a strong, plucky seven-year-old Ojibwe girl living in 1847. When Omakayas was a baby, she was the sole survivor of a smallpox epidemic on her home of Spirit Island. Rescued by a fearless woman named Tallow, Omakayas is adopted by an Ojibwa family on Madeline Island. As Omakayas partakes in the rhythms of daily life on the island—from making birchbark houses and tanning moose hides, to picking berries and harvesting wild rice—she forges stronger connections both with her family and with unexpected friends. But when the dreaded smallpox returns to Omakayas’ life, she has to find a talent and inner strength that she did not know she had.
4/22/2017 0 Comments I Have Heard of a Land1998, Written by Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper Coretta Scott King Award (1999) I Have Heard of a Land is a historical fiction tale of a single black woman who makes her home on the Oklahoma countryside in the late 19th century.
4/15/2017 0 Comments New Shoes2014, Written by Susan Lynn Meyer, Illustrated by Eric Valasquez Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children (2016) New Shoes is the story of how the industrious Ella Mae and her friend Charlotte turn a humiliating Jim Crow law into success.
2001, Written by Patricia Clark Smith Massachusetts—Rhode Island, 1653. This installment in The Royal Diaries series follows Native American leader Weetamoo when she was a teenager, written as a fictionalized account of her thoughts.
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