If I was starting a library in a high school, these are the first books I'd buy, along with the ten listed in 2010: Best Books, High School.
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, edited by Bill Bigelow
Killer of Enemies, by Joseph Bruchac
The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
House of Purple Cedar, by Tim Tingle
Code Talker Stories, by Laura Tohe
The Moon of Letting Go: And Other Stories, by Richard Van Camp
Robopocalypse, by Daniel H. Wilson
Short annotations for these books are at School Library Journal in a column I wrote for them in November of 2013: Resources and Kit Lit about American Indians.
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