Edited by Nick Healy. Capstone/Switch Press, $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-63079-012-7
More than 40 brief true stories from Pete Hautman, Alison McGhee, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka and others address a vast range of experiences and emotions that will be painfully familiar to teens or anyone who ever was one. Several stories, like Rachael...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author . Puffin $5.99 (153p) ISBN 978-0-14-131236-1
"Bruchac explores what it means to be Native American in a modern society through the perceptive first-person narrative of 11-year-old Chris Nicola," said PW. Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Joseph Bruchac. Dial, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-59-332621-3
Bruchac (Peacemaker), who is Abenaki, pens a spare novel-in-verse that richly addresses an array of subjects, including Wabanaki legends and beliefs, residential schools, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the difficulties of online schooling with insecure...
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Joseph Bruchac. Dial, $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-98-481537-8
Through 12-year-old Okwaho, who loves to make songs, Bruchac (One Real American) brings a fresh point of view to this briskly told fictionalization of the Iroquois Confederacy’s beginnings. Okwaho’s family is one of 14 who leave the big village of...
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Joseph Bruchac. Abrams, $18.99 (248p) ISBN 978-1-41-974657-4
Employing historical photographs and first-person quotes, Bruchac (who is Abenaki) uses straightforward language in this lively biography of Ely S. Parker, an Iroquois engineer and lawyer who served as both a Seneca Grand Sachem and a Civil War...
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Joseph Bruchac. Dial, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3508-8
The Cherokee villagers of Willstown avoid Uwohali’s father, Sequoyah—despite his artistry and storytelling skills—believing that his fascination with strange symbols indicates witchcraft. Although Sequoyah has been largely absent from his son’s life,
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Joseph Bruchac. Lee & Low/Tu Books, $17.95 (392p) ISBN 978-1-60060-661-8
Bruchac (Dragon Castle) delivers a fun twist on werewolf stories mixed with some mad science and espionage. Luke King’s black ops father spent years teaching him various survival skills, and Luke’s heightened senses also come in handy. When Luke’s...
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Joseph Bruchac. Dial, $16.99 (348p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3376-3
Drawing upon his Slovakian heritage, Bruchac (Bearwalker) spins a good-natured and humorous fairy tale set in the castle of Hladka Hvokra. The only intellectual in a family known more for kindness than deep thoughts, overserious Prince Rashko chafes
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Joseph Bruchac, Author Dial Books $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2276-7
Bruchac explores what it means to be Native American in a modern society through the perceptive first-person narrative of 11-year-old Chris Nicola. The sixth-grader confronts a plethora of changes: he must now ride a bus from his Penacook Indian...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author Dial Books $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1793-0
Told from the alternating points of view of Native American Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister Otsi:stia, this historic novel shows a Mohawk village during the best of times: after the Great League of Peace is formed and before European settlers rob the...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author University Press of New England $26 (310p) ISBN 978-0-87451-881-8
The title of this third installment in the Dawn Land trilogy (after Dawn Land and Long River) refers to Lake Champlain, and those waters are decidedly troubled as Native American storyteller Bruchac again follows the adventures of Young Hunter, an...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author Dial Books $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1997-2
In this poignant memoir, author and storyteller Bruchac (Eagle Song) lays bare the often painful circumstances of his youth and describes the gradual embracing of his Native American heritage. Bruchac is widely known as an expert in Native American...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author Fulcrum Group $19.95 (332p) ISBN 978-1-55591-134-8
Young Hunter, the hero of Native American storyteller Bruchac's first novel, Dawn Land, returns in this slightly disappointing sequel. It is two years since the young warrior saved his tribe, the Only People, by defeating the Ancient Ones, evil...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author Holy Cow Press $18.95 (119p) ISBN 978-0-930100-48-3
Bruchac ( Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back ) is perhaps the best - known contemporary Native American storyteller. This slim, highly entertaining volume of 17 original stories touches upon a wide range of Native experiences and spans time from the...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author Fulcrum Group $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-55591-129-4
Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture and Values Through Storytelling by Joseph Bruchac is a wide-ranging exploration of many aspects of Native American experience, lifestyle and belief. Bruchac uses traditional stories to ...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author . Lee & Low $6.95 (, $6.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-58430-027-4
The Native American author relates the circumstances of his life, from his often painful youth to his later successes at Cornell and beyond, in what PW
called "a poignant memoir." Ages 12-up. (May)
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Joseph Bruchac, Author . HarperCollins $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-029075-7
According to the gutsy sixth grade narrator of Bruchac's (Heart of a Chief; Sacagawea) latest novel, the book draws from the traditions of Native American stories, especially one about a "skeleton man," for its spine-tingling effects....
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Joseph Bruchac, Author . Dial $16.99 (277p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3118-9
Drawing on meticulous research, Bruchac (Wabi
) presents Jim Thorpe's (1887–1953) complex story, focusing on his years at Haskell and Carlisle Indian Schools, as a kind of imagined autobiography. Thorpe excelled at football, baseball and...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author . Dial $16.99 (198p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3098-4
Bruchac's (Skeleton Man
) storytelling skills are on full display in this tale introducing an owlet narrator. Wabi's adventure begins almost immediately, when his brother pushes him out of the nest and into the path of a hungry fox. Wabi'
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Joseph Bruchac, Author . Scholastic $16.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-439-35358-8
Reprising his signature themes, Bruchac sets up this taut novel to reveal a chilling bit of history: according to an endnote, the Vermont Eugenics Project, signed into law in 1931, enabled the state to incarcerate and sterilize many Abenaki Indians,
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Joseph Bruchac, Author . Darby Creek $15.95 (117p) ISBN 978-1-58196-002-0
Opening with fast-paced sketches of a lacrosse game and punctuated by the reverent thoughts of a teenage Iroquois player, Bruchac's (Pocahontas, reviewed below) contemporary novel will draw in both sports enthusiasts and those with an interest...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author . Harcourt/Silver Whistle $17 (173p) ISBN 978-0-15-216737-0
Repeating the narrative structure he used to great success in Sacajawea, Bruchac alternates between two stylized voices for this less involving story. The uneven narrative follows 11-year old Pocahontas, the favorite daughter of Chief Powhatan, and...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Christine Shrader, Illustrator Dutton Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-65164-2
Bruchac (Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back) combines several sources in telling this traditional Native American ``teaching story.'' After making an arduous journey to visit Gluskabe, the Great Spirit's helper, four men are each granted a wish....
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Virginia A. Stroud, Illustrator, Gayle Ross, With Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1737-4
With lyric simplicity this retelling of a Cherokee folktale posits an explanation for the origin of the Milky Way, at the same time stressing the merits of communal labor. When a great spirit dog begins to rob cornmeal belonging to an old couple,...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Blaylock, Illustrator, Dan Andreasen, Illustrator Dial Books $14.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1918-7
It's a shock for fourth-grader Danny Bigtree to move to Brooklyn from his Mohawk Nation reservation: suddenly he has no friends, and his classmates taunt him, asking him where his war pony is and telling him to go home to his teepee. After his...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Thomas Locker, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $7 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202062-0
A Native American man tells his nephew 10 legends of sacred places. PW praised the ""gracefully compressed"" unrhymed verse and the alternately ""ethereal"" and ""atmospheric"" oil paintings. All ages. (May)
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Joseph Bruchac and Will Davis, Roaring Book/First Second, $19.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59643-143-0
Adapted from Bruchac's 1993 prose novel, this lengthy fable, set in ancient times and apparently inspired by Abenaki folklore, concerns a young Native American hunter (called Young Hunter) who goes out to seek vengeance after his village is attacked
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Jonathan London, Editor, Thomas Locker, Illustrator Philomel Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22141-5
To many Native Americans, the 13 cycles of the moon represent the changing seasons and the passage of time. Each moon has its own special name that, while varying among the tribal nations, is consistent with the legend that the 13 scales on Old...
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Joseph Bruchac. 7th Generation (Orca, dist.), $9.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-939053-10-7
The true story of Seneca leader Ely Parker (1828–1895) inspires this fast-paced work of historical fiction, which joins the PathFinders line of books, written at a second-grade reading level. Ely, whose Seneca name is Hasanoanda, becomes a star...
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Joseph Bruchac, illus. by Liz Amini-Holmes. Albert Whitman, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8075-0007-1
Bruchac begins this powerful story of Chester Nez (born Betoli) as he is taken by missionaries from the Navajo reservation to boarding school: “Chester knew he might need to live in the white man’s world one day. In that world speaking English was...
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Joseph Bruchac, illus. by Dale Deforest. Reycraft, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4788-6868-2
This early chapter book with a picture book trim size, the first installment of the Powwow Mystery Series, features twins Jamie and Marie Longbow, who are traveling to powwows this summer with their grandparents to sell Grama’s wares. Jamie excels...
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Joseph Bruchac. Reycraft, $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4788-7515-4
Told via rhythmic narrative poems by Bruchac (who is Abenaki) and illustrated by 30 modern-day tribally enrolled artists, this moving nonfiction biography collection highlights 34 Indigenous Americans across time. The figures are presented...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Anna Vojtech, Illustrator Dial Books $14.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1332-1
Bruchac ( Keepers of the Earth ; Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back ) once again brings simplicity and lyricism to his interpretation of Native American legend. The Cherokee tale told here explains the origin of various berries and, in the process,...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Paul Morin, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (176p) ISBN 978-0-15-201327-1
Author and poet Bruchac (Breaking Silence) has assembled a plethora of eloquent poems and essays spanning the ""seven generations"" since Europeans arrived. It was at this point that tribal traditions and beliefs, passed down orally, began to be ""sp
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Paul Morin, Illustrator Philomel Books $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-399-22346-4
In this tale of the sweet and vital bond between Native American great-grandparents and children, Bruchac, a well-known storyteller with Abenaki roots, offers a glimpse into traditional ways through the experience of Jamie, an Abenaki girl who lives
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Jose Aruego, Illustrator, Ariane Dewey, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2977-3
Father and son writing team Joseph and James Bruchac return with their third folktale, Raccoon's Last Race, illus. by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Here, long-limbed, speedy raccoon taunts his rivals as he easily outruns them. But when he has an...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Peter Roop, Author, Connie Roop, Author Harcourt Children's Books $17 (208p) ISBN 978-0-15-202234-1
Bruchac's (The Arrow Over the Door) intimate novel about Lewis and Clark's epic Western exploration unfolds through the alternating voices of Sacajawea, their Shoshone interpreter, and Clark. Sacajawea's now-grown son, Pomp (Jean Baptiste...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Bruchac, Author, Murv Jacob, Illustrator Troll Communications $13.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8167-3026-1
In Native American cultures the passage of a boy into manhood is a highly significant event marked by a variety of rituals. ``One powerful way in which the meanings of this transition have been taught for thousands of years is through traditional...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Rocco Baviera, Illustrator Philomel Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22692-2
Like most Lakota Sioux boys, Slow yearns for the special vision or manly deed that will inspire his permanent, adult name. Encouraged by splendid stories of his father's bravery, wisdom and leadership, Slow focuses his energy on becoming a warrior....
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Anna Vojtech, Author, Anna Vojtech, Illustrator Puffin Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-056409-9
This legend explains the origins of strawberries, grown by the sun to help the first man and woman patch a quarrel. ""Spare text, an uncomplicated story line and gentle illustrations keep this quiet but resonant tale accessible to even the youngest...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Lee & Low, Author, S. D. Nelson, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-880000-94-6
As he did in Gift Horse, Sioux artist Nelson blends contemporary and traditional elements for the striking illustrations that accompany this story of the legendary Lakota warrior. Bruchac (A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull) traces...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, S. D. Nelson, Illustrator Lee & Low Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58430-166-0
New titles give informed views of talented Native American figures. Jim Thorpe's Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac, illus. by S.D. Nelson, is a historical picture-book portrayal of the legendary Olympian and all-American athlete. Bouncing between ...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Illustrator , illus. by Wendy Anderson Halperin. Dial $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3173-8
This friendly poem celebrates the role fathers play in their sons' lives and the many kinds of families who live in the U.S. Working in crayon, Halperin draws father-son pairs around the country: an Asian father and son in San Francisco, a...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator Dial Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1539-4
This adaptation of a popular Native American story pits Animals against Birds in a contest to settle an all-too-human question: Who's better? Here, it's the teeth versus the wings in stickball, a lacrosse-style game in which the players hold a stick
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Sally Wern Comport, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $4.99 (114p) ISBN 978-0-06-440888-2
Drawing on traditions of Native American stories, Bruchac writes of a girl whose parents mysteriously disappear and a "great-uncle" who shows up to claim her, with "spine-tingling effects," wrote PW. "The mix of traditional and...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Sally Wern Comport, Illustrator HarperCollins $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-052995-6
As he did with Skeleton Man, Joseph Bruchac once again blends haunting elements of traditional Native American folklore with a modern setting and characters in The Dark Pond, illus. by Sally Wern Comport. Armin, the teenage son of a Shawnee woman...
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Joseph Bruchac, illus. by Bill Farnsworth. Wisdom Tales (NBN, dist.), $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-937786-43-4
In a retelling of a story shared by several Northeast indigenous peoples, as Bruchac explains in an introductory note, a lonely Abenaki hunter gains a mysterious “winter wife” who cares for him during his hunting expeditions away from his village....
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Shonto Begay, Editor, Shonto Begay, Illustrator , illus. by Shonto Begay. National Geographic $18.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7922-7058-4
"We were given two ears so that we may hear both sides of every story," notes Bruchac at the start of this detailed, sobering account of the Navajo people's forced relocation—on foot—from their homelands in what is now...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, James Bruchac, Author, Garen Eileen Thomas, Editor Dial Books $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2404-4
In Bruchac and his son's (When the Chenoo Howls) serviceable retelling of a Native American pourquoi tale, Brown Squirrel challenges prideful Bear to keep the sun from rising. When the sun does rise, and Brown Squirrel teases Bear, Bear threatens to
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, James Bruchac, Author, Jose Aruego, Illustrator Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2852-3
Following up on their How Chipmunk Got His Stripes, father-son team Joseph and James Bruchac and artists Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey present the tale of how Turtle outsmarts Beaver, who refuses to share his pond with Turtle in Turtle's Race with
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, &. Ross Bruchac, Author, Bruchac &. Ross, Author Troll Communications $5.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8167-3481-8
Bruchac and Ross (How Rabbit Tricked Otter) team up for a companion volume to Bruchac's Flying with Eagle, Racing with Great Bear, a collection of Native American tales that focused on boys' rites of passage. Here, girls or young women are the...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Harcourt, Author, Thomas Locker, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200042-4
More than a guide to places sacred to Native Americans, this reverent book prompts readers to look within themselves to find the hallowed ground that ""sets our sprits on the right path."" While visiting ancestral land, a Native American man shares...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Duke Sine, Illustrator, Murv Jacob, Illustrator Bridgewater Books $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8167-3843-4
Representing more than 20 tribes, these stories, songs and poems of this collecton are in good hands. As usual, Bruchac tells the tales with opacity, allowing each story's inherent beauty and meaning to shine through. And since the illustrators are...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Robert F. Goetzl, Illustrator Troll Communications $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8167-7467-8
Time-honored traditions come alive in two titles. Joseph Bruchac shares the Seasons of the Circle: A Native American Year, illus. by Robert Goetzl, from January (""Maliseet hunters follow/ the tracks of the moose/ through crusted snow"") to...
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Joseph Bruchac, Author, Gary Carpenter, Illustrator Crossing Press $18.95 (204p) ISBN 978-0-89594-344-6
More than 25 tales highlight the traditions, customs and beliefs of Native American nations from areas such as those now known as Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, the Great Lakes region and Canada. The stories are always lively and usually quite fey;...
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Edited by Lori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos. Atheneum, $18.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4814-1975-8
Carlson-Hijuelos (Voices in First Person) ambitiously brings together 30 creators—including poet Jacinto Jesús Cardona, humanitarian Kamaal Majeed, and philosopher Alexandra Stoddard, among others—to detail their experiences navigating the “difficult
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James and Joseph Bruchac, illus. by Jeff Newman. Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3270-4
The father-and-son storytelling team behind Raccoon’s Last Race and Turtle’s Race with Beaver return with their version of a traditional Iroquois tale. While the Bruchacs reach back hundreds of years for the source of their story, Newman’s...
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