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Gail Ruffu was once a respected racehorse trainer known for her unconventional training methods. Then she became part owner of the Thoroughbred called Urgent Envoy, and everything changed. Her co-owne

In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americ

Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi

This will be twelve-year-old Sophia Maria Garcia's best year ever: she’s trying out for the same championship softball team her sister played on at her age, and she’s starting middle school. New schoo

Notable Children's Book, American Library Association (ALA)Editors' Choices for Books for Youth, BooklistNotable Books for a Global Society, International Reading Association (IRA)Amelia Bloomer Project - Feminist Task Force, American Library Association (ALA)American Indian Youth Literature Award for Best Middle Grade Book, American Library Association (ALA)When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.Regina Petit's family has always been Umpqua, and living on the Grand Ronde Tribe's reservation is all ten-year-old Regina has ever known. Her biggest worry is that Sasquatch may actually exist out in the forest. But when the federal government enacts a law that says Regina's tribe no longer exists, Regina becomes Indian no more overnight--even though she lives with her tribe and practices tribal customs, and even though her ancestors wer