This evocative new poetry collection speaks with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poet's life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the struggle to try to find forgiveness for...
First Nation Communities Read 2024
First Nation Communities Read (FNCR) is an annual reading program launched in 2003 by the First Nations public library community in Ontario. The program is designed to encourage family literacy, and promote the voices of indigenous authors, illustrators, and publishers. Learn more from the FNCR website.
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Author:Bouvier, RitaSummary: - Author:Porter, MichelleSummary:
National Bestseller Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Five generations of Meacute;tis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land...
- Author:Davidson, Robert, Williams-Davidson, Terri-LynnSummary:
A visual and cultural celebration of a traditional Haida wedding ceremony, exploring its roots, rituals, symbolism, joyfulness, and contemporary significance for a thriving Indigenous Nation. In 1996, Terri-Lynn Williams and Robert...
- Author:McLeod, Darrel J.Summary:
A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien. James, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement...
- Author:Archibald-Barber, Jesse RaeSummary:
Aided by Grandmother Spider, Star Woman discovers the Hole-in-the-Sky, opening a pathway for the Star People to experience the wonder of life on earth. But the world falls into the hands of the Paper People, jeopardizing the sacred...
- Author:Dimaline, CherieSummary:
An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline, award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, is the tale of an intricate dance with life-long anxiety. It is about how the stories we tell ourselves can help reshape the ways in which we think...
- Author:Chartrand, AdrianaSummary:
A chilling horror novel about a young Indigenous woman haunted by the oppressive legacies of colonization. Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. Now living in a shiny...
- Author:Cyr, BraelynSummary:
'Apli kmuj's Journey' is a fun and easy way to teach the traditional values of the Wolastoqiyik for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children alike!
- Author:Vincent, Nina, McMaster, GeraldSummary:
Arctic / Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and environmental upheaval. Both regions are environmentally sensitive areas that have become hot...
- Author:O'Watch, HeatherSummary:
Auntie always greets Cree in nēhiyawēwin when she comes for a visit. When Auntie arrives with a surprise gift hidden in her bag, Cree can't wait to discover what it is. The first clue? It's from the rez. As Cree tries to figure out...
- Author:Okemow, SJSummary:
A debut picture book that celebrates self-love, care, and resilience with one of the most widespread plants--the dandelion. Both a love letter to the dandelion and a call to love ourselves in a difficult world, Âmî Osâwâpikones...
- Author:Johns, JessicaSummary:
When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night,...
- Author:Reid, BrandonSummary:
Imbued with passion, creativity and insight, Brandon Reid's debut novel is a wonderfully creative coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity, masculinity and cultural tradition. Twelve-year-old Derik Mormin travels with his father and a...
- Author:Knott, HelenSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Helen Knott's debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and...
- Author:Florence, MelanieSummary:
Benjamin loves the rain. He loves splashing in puddles and kicking the droplets. And most of all, he loves the sound of thunder because it reminds him of the drum his grandfather plays at powwow. There's nothing better than being...
- Author:Outram, JessicaSummary:
It's the summer of 1914. Eight-year-old Bernice lives with her family in a lighthouse on Georgian Bay. Bernice doesn't get to explore much farther than their island, but she has her books to fuel her imagination, including her favorite...
- Author:Cooper, NancySummary:
Today, Amik is expecting her beaver cousins for a special visit, and she can't wait to show them her home. But as the visitors arrive, Amik suddenly realizes that her little sister, Nishiime, has disappeared. Where could she have gone?...
- Author:Rogers, Janet MarieSummary:
Written as a stage play and set within a fictional gameshow. Blood Sport, through a satirical lens confronts the absurdity and harmful consequences of false claims of Indigenous identity, and delves into this complex topic of...
- Author:Marcotte, Danielle S.Summary:
The captivating story of how the Blue Camas, a flower that has been cultivated on Canada's west coast since time immemorial, came to symbolize the meeting of two contrasting ways of life and the perseverance of traditional knowledge...
- Author:Morgan, Cara-LynSummary:
Motherhood, trauma, and familial history are woven together into a powerful collection from the award-winning author of What Became My Grieving Ceremony. Beginning with a revelation of familial sexual abuse, Building a Nest from the...
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