Booklists for Educators

In Rye, Virginia, football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade teacher assigns her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue

From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform practices today.

Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Soon, Mia makes a plan to use the gifts from her bat mitzvah to take a bus to Oklahoma--without tel

From transportation to civil engineering and architecture to agriculture, Indigenous Ingenuity is an unforgettable introduction to STEM fields.

Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong-until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.

Edward and Nathan, two Navajo stepbrothers, work with a young water monster named Dew to confront their past and save the world from a monstrous, enormous Enemy that is stealing water from all of the Navajo Nation.

Lauren and James go fishing with their Moshom (grandfather). When the water around them begins to swirl, they are thrown overboard and they see Memekwesewak--creatures who live in the water and like to interfere with humans. Lauren must follow them throug

A picture book homage to community and contemporary Native pride-intimately set in the comfort of an urban Native community center that is celebrating the inauguration of Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior on March 18, 2021.

The true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender, who in 1911 became the first two Native American pro baseball players to face off in a World Series, teaches important lessons about resilience, doing what you love in the face of injustice, and the fight

Becca loves spending time with Grandma. Every time Becca says, "Let me try," Grandma shows her how to make something beautiful. Whether they are beading moccasins, dancing like the most beautiful butterflies, or practicing basketball together, Becca knows