Indigenous Stories for Teens – November 2025
November is National Native American Heritage Month, and one way we celebrate it is through the sharing of stories by and about Native Americans. Whether or not you are Native American, these new titles for teens make for fantastic stories. GN = graphic novel MS = middle school (Created October 2025)
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Billy Buckhorn and the Book of Spells
A Cherokee teen is struck by lightning, which gives him access to what his medicine man grandfather calls “the old ways.” As he immerses himself in his grandfather’s teachings, Billy learns his role is to protect his people from supernatural evil. First in a series. MS
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Dawn Land
Set about 10,000 years ago in what is now eastern Canada and New England, Young Hunter tracks down a mysterious threat with a new technology: the bow and arrow. MS
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Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
Winifred, who lives with her funeral home-operator father near the grave of her mother, spends her nights wandering the graveyard. When someone believes Winifred is a ghost and sets up a ghost tour, she and her father welcome the money but find themselves in more of a carnival scenario, until Winifred meets Phil, the actual ghost of a teen girl who died years before.
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Harvest House
Hughie is volunteering at a local haunted house, where he learns he and others will play Indian ghosts following the worst stereotypes. However, Celeste is a real Native ghost haunting the area, and when a video captures her trying to save girls from a creepy man, Hughie must find a way to help her and the girls as chaos threatens their community.
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Indiginerds
Nineteen Indigenous creators create eleven unique stories, following Indigenous teens throughout North America and showing how important their shared sense of culture is to them. GN
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Legendary Frybread Drive-in
Seventeen loosely connected stories about Indigenous teens discovering a popup diner whenever they need some Native wisdom.
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Looking for Smoke
Mara is finally invited to a Blackfeet Giveaway, where she hopes to make some friends. But one of the other girls is found murdered, and all eyes are on Mara and the other three teens in the group, all of whom had complicated relationships with the murdered girl.
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Sisters in the Wind
Lucy navigates the foster care system after her father’s death, and after learning to trust two people who really do have her interests at heart, she begins to uncover family secrets. She has at least one sibling, that she is Ojibwe, and that she has a grandmother and a home where she would be loved.
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