2025 One Shelf Project

The 2025 One Shelf Project brings a selection of 46 new books and stories to Vermont and Maine libraries.

Picture Books

I Am Osage: How Clarence Tinker Became the First Native American Major General, Kim Rogers

Little Bear, Little Berry Cecilia LaPointe

Loaf the Cat Goes To The Powwow,  Nicholas DeShaw

She Persisted: Deb Haaland, Laura Goodluck and Chelsea Clinton

She Persisted: Maria Tallchief, Christine Day and Chelsea Clinton

Summer’s Magic, Kaitlin B.Curtice 

The Bee Mother, Hetxw'ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson

The Frog Mother, Hetxw'ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson

The Grizzly Mother, Hetxw'ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson

The Raven Mother, Hetxw'ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson

The Sockeye Mother, Hetxw'ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson

The Wolf Mother, Hetxw'ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson

What’s in a Bead?, Kelsey Borgford

Building a Three Sisters Garden, Judy Dow

Middle School Readers

Apple in the Middle, Dawn Quigley

Blue Stars: Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem, Kekla Magoon and Cynthia Leitich Smith 

Find Her, Ginger Reno

Gluskonba and the Maple Trees (Algonquian Languages and English Edition), Joseph Bruchac, James Bruchac, and Jesse Bruchac

Red Bird Danced, Dawn Quigley

The Case of the Pilfered Pin, Michal Hutchinson

High School Readers

April Raintree, Beatrice Mosionier

Blood Sisters, Vanessa Lillie

Kukum, Michael Jean

Mask of the Deer Woman, Laurie L. Dove

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, Nick Estes

Sisters of the Lost Nation, Nick Medina

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America, Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz

Where Wolves Don’t Die, Anton Treuer

Between the Pipes, Albert McLeod

Dad, I Miss You: A Residential School Story, Nadia Sammurtok 

Gaining U.S. Citizenship (Racial Justice in America: Indigenous Peoples), Heather Bruegl

To Shape A Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential Schools, Fred Sasakamoose 

Gather, Kenneth M. Cadow

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native Americans, Matika Wilbur

Surviving the City Vol. 1, Tasha Spillett

Surviving the City, Vol. 2: From the Roots Up, Tasha Spillett

Surviving the City Series, Vol 3: We are the Medicine, Tasha Spillett

The Quiet Butterfly, Victoria Wright

Wandering Stars: A Novel, Tommy Orange