Recommended Titles

If I Can Read I Can Do Anything recommends any title in the Oyate catalog.

National award winners

Recommended by board members

ALA's Young Adult Library Services Association booklist

Book Lists with Native American Content:

30 Recommended Reading Lists About Native Americans , from the National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/

Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature from The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach_americas.html

Books recommended by the Cherokee Observer http://www.cherokeeobserver.org/books.html

Fiction and Poetry by Native Americans:  A Selected List http://www.chipublib.org/001hwlc/litlists/nativeamer.html

Month-by-month lists of new books on Native Peoples received by the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library. http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/indbks.html

Native books section  from Paula Giese's Website. http://www.kstrom.net/isk/books/bookmenu.html

Required reading list for American Indian Studies Graduate Students at the University of Arizona Best, John D. Berry(Choctaw), NAS Librarian, UC Berkeley
http://aisp.web.arizona.edu/Reading_list.htm

Book Lists with Latino Culture Content

Temas Latinos: Suggested Children's Books Grades K-3 Compiled by El Corazon de Tejas-Central Texas Chapter of REFORMA (2004)
http://www.main.org/reforma/Lists/readinglist.html

Top Circulating Titles from Participating School Libraries:

Mama Cat Has Three Kittens by Denise Fleming
What Eric Knew by James Howe
Zoom City by Thatcher Hurd
Way out in the Desert by T.J. Marsh and Jennifer Ward
Count Us In by Keith Potter
Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant
Good Knight by Linda Rymill
Best Halloween of All by Susan Wojciechowski
Journey to the Haunted Planet by A.J. Wood
More Bone-Chilling Tales of Fright Anthology

Elementary School-level Native American Newspapers and Magazines

American Indian
Indian Country Today
Native American Times
Native Peoples
Native Realities
Native Youth News
Navajo Times
New Voices: News and Arts from a Native Youth Perspective

DICTIONARIES! These dictionaries are used by many of our schools and are available at a reasonable price:

Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary/Merriam-Webster/March 1996
ISBN 0-87779-500-2


January 9, 2004
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