By: Katherine Paterson
The 13th century St. Francis of Assisi hymn of praise, "The Canticle of the Sun", pays homage to the natural world. It has been newly interpreted and freshly illustrated with handsome, memorable, and respectful results
By: Katherine Paterson

The flight of an Albanian family from Kosovo to avoid escalating violence and what they confront when they land in a small Vermont village comes to life through the voice of 12-year old Meli.

By: Katherine Paterson John Paterson
An ancient talisman resurfaces to once again create misery until a true heart destroys it forever. The husband and wife team rework this early 20th century fantasy making it accessible to contemporary audiences.
By: Uma Krishnaswami
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It's Rakhi Day, a Hindu celebration special to brothers and sisters, and Arun wishes he had a little sister. Soon his wish comes true when he finds out that his parents will be adopting Asha, a little girl from India.

By: Linda Pettitt Sharon Darrow
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Product Description: Meet Yafi, a six-year-old Ethiopian boy who was adopted as a young child. Yafi, his parents, and two sisters remember his early life and his adoption experience by telling stories, revisiting memories, and looking at photographs.

Boy holding up a salmon
By: Bruce McMillan

Product Description: Every summer, the salmon return to spawn in the streams of Kodiak Island, Alaska, and nine-year-old Alex, a native Aleut, comes here to fish with his family as his ancestors did.

By: Catherine O. Grace Margaret E. Bruchac

A considerable amount of information is packed into this pictorial presentation of the reenactment of the first Thanksgiving, held at Plimoth Plantation museum in October, 2000…Five chapters give background on the Wampanoag people, colonization, Indian

Meet Lydia: A Native Girl from Southeast Alaska
By: Miranda Belarde-Lewis
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Product description: Join Lydia, a Tlingit girl in southeast Alaska, as she makes ceremonial clothing, dances in the region's biggest Native festival, and learns the Tlingit language by helping kindergarteners learn it too.

By: Ulli Steltzer

Product Description: For centuries people of the Arctic built their houses of snow. Today, the Inuit no longer live in igloos but Tookillkee Kiguktak remembers learning how to build one as a child.

The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations
By: Alootook Ipellie David MacDonald

Product Description: Today's Arctic communities have all the comforts of modern living. Yet the Inuit survived in this harsh landscape for hundreds of years with nothing but the land and their own ingenuity.

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