An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese
Middle School, High School    Beacon    270 pp.
7/19    Paper ed.  978-0-8070-4939-6    $18.95
e-book ed.  978-0-8070-4940-2    $14.99

Mendoza and Reese, children’s literature scholars and bloggers at American Indians in Children’s Literature (americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com), have created a young people’s edition of Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Wide-ranging and politically engaged, with chapters including “Culture of Conquest,” “Jefferson, Jackson, and the Pursuit of Indigenous Homelands,” and “Indigenous Action, Indigenous Rights” and peppered throughout with informative sidebars, the book will be a valuable resource for American History curricula for middle and high school students. Appended with a list of recommended readings, source notes, and an index.

From the November/December 2019 Horn Book Magazine.