Michael L. Printz Award Winner
American Indian Youth Literature Award Winner
Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the...
Written by the award-winning, bestselling author of Jingle Dancer, Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee), and filled with tender illustrations by Kate Gardiner (Nipmuck), this unforgettable, warmhearted picture book is for family and the friends who become family.
Piper feels grateful for visits with her...
Read More about Firefly SeasonEdited by award-winning
and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting
stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy,
resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Native families
from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for...
A living legend roosting in the backyard. An unmissable game. A hair-raising mystery. A road trip full of adventure and danger. And all the overlapping circles that connect us throughout Creation.
Melanie “Mel” Roberts and Ray Halfmoon may be from different Indigenous Nations, but the friends have...
Read More about On a Wing and a TearTwo everyday superheroes set out to save the world—starting with their school—in an exciting new middle-grade graphic series from two award-winning authors and a debut illustrator.
When cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their activist grandma, they get off to a...
Joyful and warmhearted, this delightful book honors the blessings of every auntie in a child’s life, by distinguished author Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) and illustrator Aphelandra (Oneida).
“Hesci! Here come the aunties!”
Aunts by kinship as well as family friends, neighbors, and community...
Read More about Here Come the Aunties!New
York Times bestselling author Cynthia
Leitich Smith's lyrical text is paired with the warm, evocative watercolors of
Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu in this affirming story
of a contemporary Native American girl who turns to her family and community.
The cone-shaped jingles sewn to Grandma...
Read More about Jingle Dancer“Part coming-of-age tale, part social justice story, and part paranormal thriller. . . . This is one heckuva roller coaster ride.” —School Library Connection (starred review)
Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith...
The beloved chapter book by New
York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith about the love and
adventures shared by a Cherokee-Seminole
boy and his Grampa now has brand-new illustrations! A perfect pick for new
readers.
What
do Indian shoes look like, anyway? Like beautiful beaded moccasins... or...
Edited by award-winning
and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting
stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy,
resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
Native families
from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for...
