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The Gift of the Sacred Dog by Paul Goble, 1980.

A Native American tribe is starving because they haven’t been able to find any buffalo. They send out searchers and try to do a dance to call the buffalo.

One boy decides to go into the hills to ask the Great Spirit for help. When he asks for help, Thunderbirds swoop down from the sky, and a figure rides to...


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Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles, illustrated by Peter Parnall, 1971.

Annie is a Navajo girl who lives with her family in a traditional hogan. Her family keeps sheep, and Annie helps to tend them when she’s not at school. She also likes to listen to her grandmother’s stories.

One evening Annie’s grandmother tells the family that, by the time the new ...


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The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George, 1983.

Billie Wind is a Native American girl from the Seminole tribe in Florida. When the story begins, Billie has been brought before the tribe’s elders because she doesn’t believe in the tribe’s legends about talking creatures, nature spirits, and other supernatural phenomena. It was her older sister Mary who reported her t...


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The Little Leftover Witch by Florence Laughlin, 1960.

Young Lucinda Doon has a great time on Halloween, running around the neighborhood in her ghost costume. During the night, though, she wakes up to hear someone crying or trying not to cry. When she looks out the window, she sees a young witch. The little witch says that her broom broke, and without her broom, she won’t b...


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The Trouble with Miss Switch by Barbara Brooks Wallace, 1971.

Rupert is a budding young scientist, just entering the fifth grade, and his new teacher is an unusual woman called Miss Switch. A lot of teachers say they’ve got eyes in the back of their head, but it seems like Miss Switch really does. Right from the first, she seems to know what kids in class are doin...


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