2026 One Shelf Project
The 2026 One Shelf Project brings a selection of 52 new books and stories to Vermont and Maine libraries.
Picture Books
Ami Osawapikones Dear Dandelion — SJ Okemow
Bud Finds Her Gift — Robin Kimmerer
Can You Hear the Plants Speak — Nicholas Hummingbird
Firefly Season — Cynthia Leitch Smith
Found — Joseph Bruchac
Little Bear, Little Berry — Cecelia LaPointe
Loaf the Cat Goes to the Powwow — Nicholas DeShaw
Of the Sun — Selena Gonzalez
Sometimes I Feel Like An Oak — Danielle Daniel
The Search for Gluscap — Brandon Mitchell
Thunder and the Noise Storms — Jeffrey Ansloos & Sheeza Ansloos
Walking Two Worlds — Joseph Bruchac
When I Was Eight — Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
When the Shadbush Blooms — Carla Messinger
When We Gather — Andrea L. Rogers
Why We Dance — Deidre Havrelock
Middle School Readers
A Coyote Columbus Story — Thomas King
Apple in the Middle — Dawn Quigley
Between the Pipes — Albert McLeod
Blue Stars: Mission 1: Vice Principal Problem — Kekla Magoon & Cynthia Leitich Smith
Buffalo Dreamer — Violet Duncan
I Can Make This Promise — Christine Day
On a Wing and a Tear — Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Kodiaks — David A. Robinson
Racial Justice in America: Indigenous Peoples: Gaining US Citizenship — Heather Bruegl
The Ribbon Skirt — Cameron Mukwa
Sixties Scoop — Inez Cook
Sixties Scoop: Reconnection — Inez Cook
Unfinished — Cheryl Isaacs
We Shall Not Be Denied — Cayla Bellinger DeGroat & Cicely Lewis
High School Readers
The Berry Pickers — Amanda Peters
Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Kimmerer
Firekeeper's Daughter — Angeline Boulley
Indian Card — Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
Indigenous Peoples: History of the US — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life — Alina Pete
Katahdin: Wigwam's Tale of the Abnaki Tribe — Molly Spotted Elk
Language of Trees — Katie Holten
Legendary Frybread Drive-In — Cynthia Leitich Smith
Moth Dreamer — Amy Lynn Farrell
Night of the Living Rez — Morgan Talty
Not Your Princess — Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale
Ours to Tell — Eldon Yellowhorn & Kathy Lowinger
The Quiet Butterfly — Victoria Wright
The Seed Keeper — Diane Wilson
Sisters in the Wind — Angeline Boulley
Sisters of the Sunrise — Patricia Austin
Surviving the City: Vol. 1 — Tasha Spillett & Natasha Donovan
Surviving the City: Vol. 2 — Tasha Spillett & Natasha Donovan
Surviving the City: Vol. 3 — Tasha Spillett & Natasha Donovan
This Indian Kid — Eddie Chuculate
Warrior Girl Unearthed — Angeline Boulley