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Checked In: A Davenport Library Podcast

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20. Native American Heritage Month, DINOVEMBER, and Your Library

Dinosaur Books

Dinosaur Dinosaur by Kevin Lewis

Dinosaur Pirates by Kevin Lewis

Dinosaur Train by John Steven Gurney

Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems

Library Books are not for eating by Todd Tarpley and Tom Booth

Mamasaurus by Stephen Lomp

Rex Wrecks It! by Ben Clanton

Stegothesauraus by Bridget Heos

That’s What Dinosaurs Do by Jory John

We Will Rock Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

Adult Fiction Titles by Indigenous Authors

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich 

There There by Tommy Orange

"My Heart is a Chainsaw" and "The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones

"Tread of Angels" and "Black Sun" by Rebecca Roanhorse 

"Cherokee America" and "When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky" by Margaret Verble 

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

Nonfiction Titles by Indigenous Authors

Adult:

A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens

The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well by Chelsey Luger

We are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

We Refuse to Forget: a True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gale

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle Mays

Unworthy Republic: the Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to India Territory by Claudio Saunt

Young Adult:

The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by Maria Garcia Esperon

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adirenne Keene

Apple: Skin to the Core: a Memoir in Words and Pictures by Eric Gansworth

An Indigenous People’s History of the United States for Young People by Jean Mendoza

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin

Trickster: Native American Tales: a Graphic Collection

Juvenile:

Contender: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series by Traci Sorell

Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud

Indigenous People’s Day by Katrina Phillips

Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monster: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan Jones

Native American History: a History Book for Kids by Jimmy Beason

Fact and Fiction of American Colonization by Tammy Gagne

We are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell

Librarian Reads

Twice A Quinceanera by Yamile Saied Mendez

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna  

I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson

Tower of God Volume One by SIU

Through the Grinder (Coffeehouse Mystery #2) by Cleo Coyle

Hello Stranger by Catherine Center

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Adventure by Lewis Hancox

Everything is OK by Debbie Tung

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall