American Indian Youth Literature Award/Honors Winners

"The first AILA American Indian Youth Literature Awards were presented during the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color in 2006. Awarded biennially, the AIYLA identifies and honors the very best writing and illustrations by Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America. Books selected to receive the award present Indigenous North American peoples in the fullness of their humanity." - AILAnet.org
 

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1. Classified: the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer

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Sorell, Traci
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JB ROSS
Fuquay-Varina Community - Childrens Biography
JB ROSS
Green Road Community - Childrens Biography
JB ROSS
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"Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--

2. Man made monsters

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Rogers, Andrea L.
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Cary Regional - Young Adult
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Duraleigh Road - Young Adult
YA ROGERS
Green Road Community - Young Adult
YA ROGERS
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Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.

3. We are grateful: otsaliheliga

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Morrisville Community - Childrens Non-Fiction
J975.004 SOREL
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The word otsaliheliga is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in the fall with the new year and ending in summer, follow a full Cherokee year of celebrations and experiences. Written by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, this look at one group of Native Americans is appended with a glossary and the complete Cherokee syllabary, originally created by Sequoyah.

4. Wilma Mankiller

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She Persisted
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Fuquay-Varina Community - Childrens Biography
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A biography of Native American activist, Wilma Mankiller.