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- About Cyn
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Kids
- On a Wing and a Tear
- Blue Stars: Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem
- Sisters of the Neversea
- Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Tasty Freckles
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Broken Star
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Six Months Later
- Jingle Dancer
- Indian Shoes
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: My Not So Secret Secret Identity
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Moo Shu and Peace
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Indian Camp
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Malibu Pocahontas
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Her Mother's Daughter
- RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME: Trailer Park Dreams
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Stop The Presses
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: A Taste For Green Bean Casserole
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Did Somebody Say Clueless?
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Rising Rain
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Mamas and Babes
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Deadlines
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Independence Day
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Children of the Corn
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: What Really Happened
- Holler Loudly
- INDIAN SHOES: Pre-Reading/Prediction Guide
- Indian Shoes: Bloom's Multiple Intelligence Projects
- INDIAN SHOES: Mathematical/Logical Activity
- Indian Shoes: Comprehension/Quiz Questions
- Indian Shoes Readers Theater: "Don't Forget The Pants!"
- Indian Shoes: Readers Guide
- Rain is Not My Indian Name: Bloom's Multiple Intelligence Projects
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Readers Guide
- Jingle Dancer: Pre-Reading Guide
- Jingle Dancer: Bloom's Multiple Intelligence Projects
- Jingle Dancer: Educator Guide
- Jingle Dancer: Comprehension Questions
- Books for Kids
- Rain is Not My Indian Name: Chapter Spotlights
- Santa Knows
- Children's Poems & MG Shorts
YA Books
- Harvest House
- Hearts Unbroken
- Tantalize (Tantalize series, Book 1)
- Eternal (Tantalize series, Book 2)
- Blessed (Tantalize series, Book 3)
- Diabolical (Tantalize series, Book 4)
- Tantalize: Kieren's Story (Tantalize series, Book 1.5)(Graphic Novel)
- Eternal: Zachary's Story (Tantalize series, Book 2.5)(Graphic Novel)
- Feral Nights (Feral trilogy, Book 1)
- Feral Curse (Feral trilogy, Book 2)
- Feral Pride (Feral trilogy, Book 3)
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name
- TANTALIZE and FERAL Series Research Bibliographies
- Tantalize Readers Guide
- Eternal Readers Guide
- Interviews about ETERNAL
- Blessed Readers Guide
- Books for Young Adults
- YA & Adult Short Pieces
For Writers
- Children's Book Art Direction, Design and Illustration
- Writer Resources
- Creating Books for Kids and Teens
- Book Reviewer's Slush Pile
- Writing for Children and Young Adults: Reading and Writing
- Writing for Children and Young Adults: Living and Writing
- Reflections for Beginner Writers
- Writing for Children and Young Adults: Journaling
- Writing for Children and Young Adults: Pre-Writing
- Writing for Children and Young Adults: Those Kids Today
- Writing for Children and Young Adults: Brain Food
- For A Writer's Heart & Mind
- Children's-YA Writing Craft
- Children's-YA Book Publishing
- Children's-YA Book Marketing & Promotion
- Children's-YA Writing Education
- Children's-YA Book Editing
- Children's-YA Agents and Agent-Author Relationships
Lit Resources
- Contemporary Native American Children's and Young Adult Books
- Native American Authors and Illustrators in Children's and Young Adult Books
- More Formats
- By Topic
- By Genre
- Teacher and Librarian Resources for Native American Children's and Young Adult Books
- Teaching Respect for Native Peoples
- Native Children's and Young Adult Books
- Historical Native American Children's Books: Picture Books, Chapter Books, Plays and Short Stories
- Historical Native American Children's and Young Adult Books: Novels
- Historical Native American Children's and YA Books: Nonfiction
- Intro: Historical Native American Children's and Young Adult Books
- Contemporary Native American Children's Books: Chapter Books & Short Stories
- Contemporary Native American Children's Books: Picture Books
- Contemporary Native American Middle Grade and Young Adult Books
- Intro: Contemporary Native American Children's and Young Adult Books
- Native American Children's and Young Adult Authors: Chapter Books, Short Stories and Plays
- Native American Middle Grade and Young Adult Authors: Nonfiction
- Native American Authors and Illustrators: Picture Books
- Native American Children's and Young Adult Authors: Novels
- Native American Middle Grade and Young Adult Authors: Biographies
- Intro: Children's and Young Adult Books by Native Authors and Illustrators
- Children's and YA Graphic Literature
- Grandparents in Children's Books
- Adoption in Children's and Young Adult Books
- Young Adult Books Overview
- Children's and Young Adult Short Stories
- Children's and Young Adult Poetry
- Children's and Young Adult Graphic Literature
- Children's and Young Adult Book Guides
- Intro: Native Children's and Young Adult Books
- Equity and Inclusion in Children's and Young Adult Books
- Interracial Children's Books: Picture Books
- Interracial Middle Grade and Young Adult Books: Novels
- Intro: Interracial & Intercultural Children's and Young Adult Books
- Equity and Inclusion in Children's and Young Adult Books: Overview
- Children's and Young Adult Book Awards
- Behind the Story: Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris on HIPPOLYTA AND THE CURSE OF THE AMAZONS
- Behind The Story: Lisa Wheeler on SIXTEEN COWS
- Behind the Story: Jerry Wermund on EARTHSCAPES
- Behind The Story: Heidi Roemer on COME TO MY PARTY
- Behind The Story: Michelle Meadows on THE WAY THE STORM STOPS
- Behind the Story: Lindsey Lane on SNUGGLE MOUNTAIN
- Behind the Story: Jane Kurtz on RIVER FRIENDLY, RIVER WILD
- Behind The Story: Deborah Hopkinson on FANNIE IN THE KITCHEN
- Behind The Story: Anna Grossnickle Hines on PIECES: A YEAR IN POEMS and QUILT
- Behind The Story: Brent Hartinger on GEOGRAPHY CLUB
- Behind The Story: Bruce Hale on the CHET GECKO MYSTERIES
- Behind The Story: Carmen T. Bernier-Grand on SHAKE IT, MORENA!
- Behind The Story: K.L. Going on FAT KID RULES THE WORLD
- Behind The Story: Nancy Garden on MOLLY'S FAMILY
- Behind the Story: Alex Flinn on BREATHING UNDERWATER
- Behind the Story: Alex Flinn on BREAKING POINT
- Behind The Story: Erzsi Deàk and Kristin Embry Litchman on PERIOD PIECES: STORIES FOR GIRLS
- Behind The Story: Shutta Crum on SPITTING IMAGE
- Behind The Story: Esme Raji Codell on SAHARA SPECIAL
- Behind the Story: Dori Chaconas on ONE LITTLE MOUSE
- Behind the Story: Toni Buzzeo on THE SEA CHEST
- Behind The Story: Kathi Appelt on DOWN CUT SHIN CREEK
- Children's and YA Authors and Illustrators, Public Speaking, and Event Planning
- Author-Speakers, School Visits and Other Events
- Interview: Children's Author Uma Krishnaswami
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Sara Jane Boyers
- Interview: YA Author Rebecca O'Connell
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Peni Griffin
- Interview: YA Author Nancy Werlin
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Nancy Garden
- Interview: Children's Author Marianne J. Dyson
- Interview: YA Author Lori Aurelia Williams
- Interview: Children's Author Linda Sue Park
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Kimberly Willis Holt
- Interview: Children's Author-Illustrator Katie Davis
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Kathi Appelt
- Interview: Children's Author Judy Blume
- Interview: Children's Author Jane Kurtz
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Jackie French Koller
- Interview: Children's Illustrators Ying-Hwa Hu and Cornelius Van Wright
- Interview: Children's Author Haemi Balgassi
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Graham Salisbury
- Interview: Children's Author Gail Carson Levine
- Interview: Children's Author Franny Billingsley
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Francess Lantz
- Interview: Children's Author Esther Hershenhorn
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Ellen Wittlinger
- Interview: Children's Author Elaine Scott
- Interview: Children's Illustrator Don Tate
- Interview: Children's Author Dianna Hutts Aston
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Diane Gonzales Bertrand
- Interview: Children's Author Denise Schmandt-Besserat
- Interview: Children's Author Debbie Leland
- Interview: Children's Author David Lubar
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Cynthia Leitich Smith
- Interview: Children's Author Carolyn Crimi
- Interview: Children's Author Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
- Interview: Children's Author B.J. Stone
- Interview: YA Author April Lurie
- Interview: YA Author Annette Curtis Klause
- Interview: Children's-YA Author Anna Myers
- Interview: YA Author An Na
- Interview: YA Author Alex Sanchez
- Awards for Children's and YA Literature By State
- Charlotte Zolotow Award for Picture Book Writing
- Children's and Young Adult Book Resources
- Children's Books Overview
- Children's and Young Adult Bibliographies
Bibliographies
- THE WORLD IN GRANDFATHER'S HANDS by Craig Kee Strete (Cherokee) (Clarion, 1995)
- THE WINDOW by Michael Dorris (Modoc)(Hyperion, 1997)
- WALKING THE CHOCTAW ROAD by Tim Tingle (Choctaw)(Cinto Puntos Press, 2003)
- SKELETON MAN by Joseph Bruchac (HarperCollins, 2001)
- SEES BEHIND TREES by Michael Dorris (Modoc) (Hyperion, 1996)
- RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Creek)(HarperCollins, 2001)
- OWL IN THE CEDAR TREE by Natachee Scott Momaday (Cherokee) and illustrated by Don Perceval (University of Nebraska Press, 1965)
- MORNING GIRL by Michael Dorris (Modoc) (Hyperion, 1992)
- THE HEART OF A CHIEF by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) (Dial, 1998)
- GUESTS by Michael Dorris (Modoc) (Hyperion, 1994)
- EAGLE SONG by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) with pictures by Dan Andreasen (Dial, 1997)
- DOVE DREAM by Hendle Rumbaut (Chickasaw) (Houghton Mifflin, 1994)
- DAUGHTER OF SUQUA by Diane Johnston Hamm (Whitman, 1997)
- THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE by Louise Erdrich (Ojibway) (Hyperion, 1999)
- MY HEROES, MY PEOPLE: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE WEST portraits by Morgan Monceaux (Creek-Seminole), text by Morgan Monceaux (Creek-Seminole) and Ruth Katcher (Frances Foster, 1999)
- AS LONG AS THE RIVERS FLOW: THE STORIES OF NINE NATIVE AMERICANS by Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo/Sioux) and Patricia Clark Smith (Micmac) (Scholastic, 1996)
- YUNMI AND HALMONI'S TRIP by Sook Nyul Choi, illustrated by Karen Dugan (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
- THE WORLD IN GRANDFATHER'S HANDS by Craig Kee Strete (Cherokee) (Clarion, 1995)
- THE WINDOW by Michael Dorris (Modoc) (Hyperion, 1997)
- WELL WISHED by Franny Billingsley (Atheneum, 1997)
- A WALK TO THE GREAT MYSTERY by Virginia A. Stroud (Cherokee-Creek) (Dial, 1995)
- TWO PAIRS OF SHOES by Esther Sanderson (of the Pas Reserve, living in Winnipeg), illustrated by David Beyer (Cree) (Pemmican, 1998)
- TWO MRS. GIBSONS by Toyomi Igus, pictures by Daryl Wells (Children's Book Press, 1995)
- TOFU AND T. REX by Greg Leitich Smith (Little Brown, 2005)
- THE STORY OF THE MILKY WAY, A CHEROKEE TALE by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) and Gayle Ross (Cherokee) with paintings by Virginia A. Stroud (Cherokee-Creek) (Dial, 1995)
- PEACEBOUND TRAINS by Haemi Balgassi, illustrated by Chris Soentpiet (Clarion, 1996)
- MUSKRAT WILL BE SWIMMING by Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki-French Canadian), illustrated by Robert Hynes, featuring a Seneca traditional story retold by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)(Northland, 1996)
- MORE MORE MORE SAID THE BABY: 3 LOVE STORIES by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow, 1990)
- MONSOON by Uma Krishnaswami, illustrated by Jamel Akib (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2003)
- MEI-MEI LOVES THE MORNING by by Margaret Holloway Tsubakiyama, illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu (Whitman, 1999)
- THE MAGIC PAINTBRUSH by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins, 2000)
- LILIANA'S GRANDMOTHERS by Leyla Torres (Farrar, 1998)
- LESS THAN HALF, MORE THAN WHOLE by Kathleen Lacapa and Michael Lacapa, who also is the illustrator (Northland, 1994)
- Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith, illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu (Morrow, 2000)
- IN MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE: AWARD WINNING AUTHORS TELL STORIES ABOUT THEIR GRANDMOTHERS edited and illustrated by Bonnie Christensen (HarperCollins, 2003)
- GRANDMOTHER'S PIGEON by Louise Erdrich (Chippewa), illustrated by Jim La Marche (Hyperion, 1996)
- GRANDMA'S CAT by Helen Ketteman, illustrated by Marsha Winborn (Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
- GRANDFATHER COUNTS by Andrea Cheng, illustrated by Ange Zhang (Lee & Low, 2000)
- GRAMPA'S CORNER STORE by Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan (HarperCollins, 2000)
- FOX SONG by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki), illustrated by Paul Morin (Philomel, 1993)
- DEAR JUNO by Soyung Pak, illustrated by Susan Kathleen Hartung (Viking, 1999)
- DAUGHTER OF SUQUA by Diane Johnston Hamm (Whitman, 1997)
- THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KALEY by Dian Curtis Regan (Darby Creek, 2005)
- REGULAR GUY by Sarah Weeks (HarperCollins, 1999)
- MINNIE SAVES THE DAY: THE ADVENTURES OF MINNIE by Melodye Benson Rosales (Little Brown, 2001)
- JUAN BOBO: FOUR FOLKTALES FROM PUERTO RICO (An I Can Read Book) by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, illustrated by Ernesto Ramos Nieves (HarperCollins, 1994)
- INDIAN SHOES by Cynthia Leitich Smith (HarperCollins, 2002)
- I'M SORRY, ALMIRA ANN by Jane Kurtz (Holt, 1999)
- DRAGONLING by Jackie French Koller (Minstrel, 2000)
- CABIN IN THE SNOW (Book Two of the Prairie Sky Series) by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by Patrick Faricy (Aladdin, 2002)
- WHALE TALK by Chris Crutcher (HarperCollins, 2001)
- WE WANTED YOU by Liz Rosenberg, illustrated by Peter Catalanotto (Roaring Brook, 2002)
- THE SEA CHEST by Toni Buzzeo, illustrated by Mary GrandPre (Dial, 2002)
- A PLACE TO CALL HOME by Jackie French Koller (Atheneum, 1995)
- OUR BABY FROM CHINA: AN ADOPTION STORY by Nancy D'Antonio (Whitman, 1997)
- NINJAS, PIRANHAS, AND GALILEO by Greg Leitich Smith (Little Brown, 2003)
- MY ROAD TRIP TO THE PRETTY GIRL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD by Brian Yansky (Cricket, 2003)
- HANGING ONTO MAX by Margaret Bechard (Roaring Brook, 2002)
- DON'T THINK TWICE by Ruth Pennebaker (Holt, 1996)
- BROWN LIKE ME by Noelle Lamperti (New Victoria Publishers, 1999)
- BRINGING ASHA HOME by Uma Krishnaswami, illustrated by Jamel Akib (Lee & Low, 2006).
- THE BOAT IN THE TREE by Tim Wynne-Jones, illustrated by John Shelley (Front Street).
- ALLISON by Allen Say (Houghton Mifflin, 1997).