Tauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter in this innovative hybrid novel is a fable, an autobiographical...
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:Nuttall, Kōtuku TitihuiaSummary: - Author:Bird, BrandiSummary:
Brandi Bird's long-anticipated debut poetry collection, The All + Flesh, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands. By examining...
- Author:Peters, AmandaSummary:
A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the...
- Author:Mainprize, ScottSummary:
The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves chronicles the fictionalization of the year the author spent teaching in Aupaluk (a remote Inuit community on the Ungava Coast of Nunavik). The second outlines, and explores, the history of...
- Author:Dandurand, Joseph A.Summary:
A story for children by Kwantlen storyteller and award-winning poet Joseph Dandurand. The Girl Who Loved the Birds is the third in a series of Kwantlen legends by award-winning author Joseph Dandurand, following The Sasquatch, the Fire...
- Author:Robertson, David A.Summary:
Eli and Morgan experience life-changing revelations in this new adventure in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series. While exploring World's End, an area in Aski they've just discovered, Morgan and...
- Author:Voyageur, CarlaSummary:
On the banks of the Gwa'yi River, a young Dzawada̱ʼenux̱w princess grows up to be a curious student, an influential leader, and a mother. She is a humble person and doesn't speak of her royalty to her children, but when they learn she...
- Author:Yakeleya, RaymondSummary:
The Rainbow, the Midwife & the Birds contains seven Dene stories, as told by Raymond Yakeleya. "Flight Through the Rainbow" is about flying through a rainbow in a small plane and experiencing multi-sensations of colour. It also...
- Author:Stiefvater, MaggieSummary:
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that...
- Author:Janicki, PeggySummary:
This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food.
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
Curtis has returned to Fort Smith, six weeks sober and determined to stay that way. Can he find healing in his grandfather's ancient cultural practices? Notorious bootlegger, Benny the Bank stands in his way. With poison slowly killing...
- Author:Good, MichelleSummary:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. FINALIST for the Writers' Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight,...
- Author:Sterritt, AngelaSummary:
As a Gitxsan teenager navigating life on the streets, Angela Sterritt wrote in her journal to help her survive and find her place in the world. Now an acclaimed journalist, she writes for major news outlets to push for justice and to...
- Author:Dimaline, CherieSummary:
Métis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she'll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and...
- Author:Speidel, SageSummary:
A mother - the author of this story - shares Lakota cultural experiences with her daughter, introducing her to waci (dance) as a way to celebrate life. Wacipi (powwow), where the dancing occurs, is a setting for Indigenous song, dance,...
- Author:Zimanyi, Louise, Marshall, AlbertSummary:
This innovative picture book introduces readers to the concept of Etuaptmumk--or Two-Eyed Seeing in the Mi'kmaq language--as we follow a group of young children connecting to nature as their teacher. A poetic, joyful celebration of the...
- Author:Syliboy, AlanSummary:
'The Owl Song' by Alan Syliboy & the Thundermakers is now a gorgeously illustrated book for all ages, exploring Mi'kmaw spirituality, life and death.
- Author:Cody, Cary Thomas, Soop, AlexSummary:
Following the immense success of his debut collection of horror stories, Midnight Storm, Moonless Sky, Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop once again scares the wits out of readers while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism...
- Author:Bonnell, YolandaSummary:
Something is missing from Miskozi's life... so she goes on a search for herself and her culture, accompanied by her inner white girl, Waabishkizi, and guided by Ziibi, a manifestation of an ancestral river. Miskozi begins the journey...
- Author:Tourond, Sarah-AnneSummary:
A lyrical story that encourages the spiritual wellness of young learners. Each page is a reminder that we are all relations and can find solace in the plants and animals, land and sky, and Ancestors around us. Using the teachings of the...
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