Books like At the End of Ridge Road by Joseph Bruchac

Junior, a budding cartoonist from the Spokane Indian Reservation, transfers to an all‑white farm‑town high school, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

A concise account of the Cherokee Nation’s forced 1,200‑mile relocation to Oklahoma in 1838‑39, highlighting the struggle to retain ancestral land and the hardships endured during the Trail of Tears.

Saul, a young Ojibwa boy, is separated from his family, sent to a brutal off‑reservation boarding school, and finds only hockey as a path to redemption amid racism and trauma.

A Creek boy discovers his true heritage and attends a federal boarding school, where he forms bonds with fellow Native American peers.

89 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.810L Lexile

A 1777 encounter between Quakers and Native Americans is portrayed through the eyes of young characters, offering a glimpse into early American cultural interactions.

""I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love," says award-winning Chicksaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In The Woman Who Watches Over the World, she recounts her American Indian identity, her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at the age of twelve with an older man, the legacy of alcoholism, and the troubled history of the two daughters she adopted. She reveals how historic and emotional pain are passed down through generations, and she blends personal history with stories of important Indian figures of the past such as Lozen, the woman who was the military strategist for Geronimo, and Ohiyesha, the Santee Sioux medical doctor who witnessed the massacre at Wounded Knee. Ultimately, Hogan sees herself and her people whole again, and in doing so gives us an illuminating story of personal and spiritual triumph."--BOOK JACKET.