Welcome Readers!

Our 2026 Online Reading Challenge is … KNOW YOUR HISTORY! Each month we will be reading about a different observance month and highlighting a main title about that month.

For November we are celebrating Native American Heritage Month. We are honoring the ancestry, heritage, and traditions of Native Americans and their contributions to American history by reading a story about or by indigenous people.

Here’s a quick summary from the publisher:

When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren’s missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation.

Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered.

Because the four members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation. And all of them—Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli—have a complicated history with Samantha.

Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands and clear their names. Even though one of them may be the murderer. – Heartdrum

Looking for some other books that honor the ancestry, heritage, and traditions of Native Americans and their contributions to American history? Try any of the following:

• Black Elk: the life of an American visionary by Joe Jackson
• Stealing America: the hidden story of Indigenous slavery in US history by Linford D. Fisher
• There, There by Tommy Orange
• Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nex Perce War by Daniel J Sharfstein
• The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava
• Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the indigenous peoples of North America by Sean Sherman
• We are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous voices from Turtle Island on the changing earth
• We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: the unheralded story of Native Americans & Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff
• We Refuse to Forget: a true story of Black Creeks, American identity, and power by Caleb Gayle
• When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!