Books like Monkey Beach
Lisamarie Hill, a young Haisla woman in Kitamaat, sets out by speedboat to look for her brother Jimmy, lost at sea, and remembers her family and the spirits she has seen since childhood.
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Son of a Trickster
Jared, a sixteen-year-old Haisla boy in Kitimat who sells weed cookies to pay the family's bills, starts seeing things that can't be real, and his mother may be a witch.
Indian Horse
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibwe man in a treatment centre for alcoholics, goes back over his childhood, his years in a residential school and the hockey that saved him for a while.
Split Tooth
A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s, through cruelty, alcohol and wonder, until the northern lights and the animals of the Arctic draw her into something mythic.
Auē
Taukiri, a Māori teenager, leaves his eight-year-old brother Ārama with their aunt and uncle on a Kaikōura farm after their parents' deaths, while their mother's story runs alongside.
The Whale Rider
In a Māori community on the east coast of New Zealand, Kahu, great-granddaughter of the chief, wants to lead, but he wants only a boy, and whales are stranding on the beach.
Solar Storms
Angela Jensen, seventeen, scarred and raised in foster homes, comes back to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada to find the women of her family, as a dam project threatens their land.
Swamplandia!
The teenage daughter of a failing Florida alligator-wrestling theme park family sets off through the Everglades to rescue her sister.
The Round House
A thirteen-year-old boy on an Ojibwe reservation seeks justice after his mother is brutally attacked, navigating a legal system designed to fail Native people.
Green Grass, Running Water
Four very old Indians walk out of a mental hospital to fix the world, while the people of a small Alberta town head for the Sun Dance, and Coyote causes trouble.
The Yield
August Gondiwindi comes home from England for her grandfather's funeral and finds the family land about to be taken by a mining company, while his Wiradjuri dictionary tells his own story.
Potiki
A Māori community on the coast holds on to its land as developers move in, and a strange, gifted child, Toko, is born into the family.
Telephone
A paleobiologist whose daughter is slowly losing her mind to a rare disease finds a plea for help sewn into a jacket he bought online and drives into the desert to answer it.