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Fans of The Poet X will fall for this powerful, romantic debut novel-in-verse about a Native Hawaiian girl's fight to find belonging in a fracturing family, sharing a message of love with resounding emotional truth.Aouli Elizabeth Smith is adrift: unheard at home and an unbeliever at church, fighting her sister and losing her best friend. Overflowing with feeling, she pours her secrets and herself into her song journal when the world threatens to sweep her away. The one place she feels tied down to earth is at her Aunty Ehu's house. Those joyous Saturdays with her extended Native Hawaiian community living in Western Washington are precious to her. Under the maple trees, the fragments of her life fit together, if only for an afternoon.Then, an unspeakable truth about her father shatters this one perfect corner of her life.As Aouli's world constricts around what others wish she could be, language fails her. But when a new boy, Nalu, turns up with eyes that seem to pierce right into her s

小鎮運動健將 Avery 在一次晨跑中，意外來到森林深處一座陌生的池塘，也喚醒了 Crook's Falls 居民早已遺忘的恐怖存在。漆黑的水彷彿有自己的意志，不斷以不同形貌出現在 Avery 身邊，而鎮上的人也開始接連失蹤。Avery 從小聽 Kanien'kehá:ka（Mohawk）親族說過關於怪物的故事，卻始終與自己的原住民族文化保持距離。如今，那些古老傳說或許正藏著破解黑水祕密的線索。當好友兼暗戀對象 Key 也失蹤，Avery 必須重新走近族中長者與自己不熟悉的文化。本書為 Cheryl Isaacs 的首部小說，融合原住民族傳說、身分認同與超自然恐怖，並獲 American Indian Youth Literature Award Honoree 肯定。An American Indian Youth Literature Award HonoreeIn her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged.When small-town athlete Avery's morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook's Falls have long forgotten.The black water has been waiting. Watching. Hungry for the souls it needs to survive. Avery can smell the water, see it flooding everywhere; she thinks she's losing her mind. And as the black water haunts Avery--taking a new form each time--people in town begin to go missing.Though Ave

Look to the sky!High above the ground, generation after generation, Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines, balancing on narrow beams, facing down terrifying heights and heartbreaking loss. These skywalkers who dared to touch the heavens have built a legacy of landmarks all over the North American continent--and even today, there are Native Americans still climbing up among the clouds, brave enough to walk the sky.With impactful and illuminating prose, Patricia Morris Buckley (Mohawk) tells the soaring story of the remarkable skywalkers, whose bravery and tragedies are warmly captured in moving watercolors by award-winning artist E. B. Lewis (Lenni-Lenape).

本書 We Still Belong 由榮獲 American Indian Youth Literature Honor 的作者 Christine Day 所寫，是一部描寫身分認同與歸屬感的中階小說。故事發生在短短一天之中，Wesley 原本期待在 Indigenous Peoples’ Day 朗讀自己寫的詩，也計畫鼓起勇氣邀請心儀的男孩參加舞會，卻接連遭遇挫折。由於部族制度的限制，她無法正式登記為 Upper Skagit 成員，這讓她不斷懷疑自己是否「不夠原住民」。在家人、朋友與跨部族 powwow 的陪伴下，Wesley 慢慢理解，身分不只來自制度，也來自情感、記憶與連結。A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor-winning author Christine Day (Upper Skagit), about a girl whose hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and plans to ask her crush to the school dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at an intertribal powwow.Wesley is proud of the poem she wrote for Indigenous Peoples' Day--but the reaction from a teacher makes her wonder if expressing herself is important enough. And due to the specific tribal laws of her family's Nation, Wesley is unable to enroll in the Upper Skagit tribe and is left feeling "not Native enough." Through the course of t

Nothing welcomes spring like a wild onion dinner!As the dirt warms and green sprouts poke up, a Cherokee girl joins her family in the hunt for green onions. Together, they pick enough to bring to a feast, which is cooked with love and shared by their community.Idalisdayvhvga! Let's all eat!Written with simple, sensory lyricism by Andrea Rogers (Cherokee) and featuring warm, vibrant art by Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw), this picture book celebrates the spring tradition of wild onion dinners--and the community and comfort that are shared when we gather.