Lara K. Aase

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Review of Across the Ice: How We Saved the Ojibwe Horse

Across the Ice: How We Saved the Ojibwe Horse by Darcy Whitecrow and Heather M. O’Connor; illus. by Natasha DonovanPrimary    Candlewick    32 pp.9/25    9781536229455    $18.99Whitecrow (Ojibwe/Dakota; Seine River First Nation Band), with coauthor O’Connor, tells of the rescue of the last four remaining Lac La Croix Indigenous ponies, or Ojibwe...
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Review of Maggie Lou Meets Her Match

Maggie Lou Meets Her Match by Arnolda Dufour Bowes; illus. by Karlene HarveyIntermediate    Groundwood    232 pp.8/25    Paper ed.  9781773067742    $14.99In this sequel to Maggie Lou, Firefox (rev. 11/23), Bowes (Métis) adds a character who rivals the feisty narrator Maggie Lou: her new cousin by marriage, Rosie. The two girls are...
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Review of Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories

Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories edited by Cynthia Leitich SmithMiddle School, High School    Heartdrum/HarperCollins    352 pp.8/25    9780063314269    $19.99This anthology edited by Muscogee author Smith includes eighteen stories by North American Indigenous authors including Darcie Little Badger (Lipan Apache), Angeline Boulley (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), Byron Graves (Ojibwe...

Review of Afloat

Afloat by Kirli Saunders; illus. by Freya BlackwoodPrimary    Levine/Levine Querido    32 pp.3/25    9781646145072    $18.99Saunders, a member of the Gunai people, writes about weaving, water, and wisdom in this picture book first published in Australia. The spare and straightforward text describes yarning, which can refer both to fiber arts and to...

Review of The Art Thieves

The Art Thieves by Andrea L. Rogers High School    Levine/Levine Querido    400 pp. 10/24    9781646143788    $19.99 This compelling Cherokee-centered speculative novel by Cherokee writer Rogers (Man Made Monsters, rev. 11/22) is set in the near future: the 2050s. Stevie’s world at first looks not much different from ours, though events...

Review of Coming Home / Tutuqaykingaqw Nima: A Hopi Resistance Story / Hopisino Pahan Tutqayiwuy Ep Yorhomti

Coming Home / Tutuqaykingaqw Nima: A Hopi Resistance Story / Hopisino Pahan Tutqayiwuy Ep Yorhomti by Mavasta Honyouti; illus. by the author; trans. into Hopi by Marilyn Parra Primary, Intermediate    Levine/Levine Querido    48 pp. 11/24    9781646144570    $18.99 Honyouti (Hopi, Iswungwa/Coyote clan) is an award-winning carver. His low-relief carved and painted...
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Review of Find Her

Find Her by Ginger RenoIntermediate, Middle School    Holiday    224 pp.10/24    9780823454808    $17.99e-book ed.  9780823461295    $10.99Wren, a bicultural seventh grader, lives with uncertainty and grief after the disappearance five years earlier of her mother, who is Cherokee. Wren’s single-mindedness about solving that mystery borders on obsession until Elisi (her grandmother) channels...

Review of Being Home

Being Home by Traci Sorell; illus. by Michaela Goade Primary    Kokila/Penguin    32 pp. 5/24    9781984816030    $18.99 e-book ed.  9781984816047    $10.99 Caldecott-winning Goade (Tlingit Nation) evokes a unique mood in each book she illustrates. Here she uses gray and dull browns and blues in her mixed-media art to show city scenes,...
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Review of The Flicker

The Flicker by H. E. EdgmonIntermediate, Middle School    Feiwel    256 pp.9/24    9781250873972    $19.99Paper ed.  9781250873965    $9.99e-book ed.  9781250873989    $9.99In this near-future dystopian novel, a solar flare has left a fraction of humanity alive. The book opens with Millie burying her stepdad outside their Appalachian bunker while her stepsister Rose looks...
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