9 must-read juvenile books like Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow by Aimée Craft

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Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

By: Aimée Craft

4.44

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work toget…

"The beauty of their silence was in everything that they heard around them."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

"The beauty of their silence was in everything that they heard around them."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

"…for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Like the original treaty."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

"…for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Like the original treaty."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

If you liked the juvenile plot in Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow by Aimée Craft , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

By: Louise Erdrich

4.04

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Inga… read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1) book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
"The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend."

-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

"Although she lived in town, Old Tallow was so isolated by the force and strangeness of her personality that she could have been surrounded by a huge dark forest. She had never had any children, and e…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

2. Picture This: How Pictures Work

By: Molly Bang

3.25

Format: 198 pages,

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25t… read more

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3. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

Similar categories in Jon Klassen's The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • middle grade
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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4. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • nonfiction
  • canada
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5. A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Porter's A Grandmother Begins the Story book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • canada
  • indigenous
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

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6. Rez Dogs

By: Joseph Bruchac

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the U.S.'s foremost indigenous children's author comes a middle grade verse novel set during t… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • indigenous
"No one should feel guilty about the past. Unless they're not doing anything about the present."

-Joseph Bruchac, Rez Dogs

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7. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

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"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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8. No Fixed Address

By: Susin Nielsen

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade story about family, friendship, and growing up when you're one step away from homele… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • canada
"I get why Winnie believes in God. I get why Dylan believes in Bernard. I get why I wanted to believe in Mel. It can give a person comfort, feeling that something mysterious and otherworldly is lookin…"

-Susin Nielsen, No Fixed Address

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9. Borders

By: Thomas King

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A stunning graphic-novel adaptation based on the work of one of Canada’s most revered and bestselli… read more

Similar categories in Thomas King's Borders book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • middle grade
  • canada
  • indigenous
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10. Mr. S: A First Day of School Book

By: Monica Arnaldo

4.21

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

It was the first day of school. But even the kindergarteners of room 2B could tell something was se… read more

Similar categories in Monica Arnaldo's Mr. S: A First Day of School Book book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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11. Plain Jane and the Mermaid

By: Vera Brosgol

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more

Similar categories in Vera Brosgol's Plain Jane and the Mermaid book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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12. The Theory of Crows

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When … read more

Similar categories in David Alexander Robertson's The Theory of Crows book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • canada
  • nature
  • indigenous
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13. The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brough… read more

Similar categories in David Alexander Robertson's The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1) book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • canada
  • indigenous
"Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory."

-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because…"

-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

Cover of Pemmican Wars (A Girl Called Echo, #1) by Katherena Vermette

14. Pemmican Wars (A Girl Called Echo, #1)

By: Katherena Vermette

3.71

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with lo… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's Pemmican Wars (A Girl Called Echo, #1) book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • canada
  • indigenous
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15. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
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16. Thirst

By: Varsha Bajaj

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. … read more

Similar categories in Varsha Bajaj's Thirst book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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17. Ways to Make Sunshine (Ryan Hart, #1)

By: Renée Watson

3.97

Format: 177 pages, Hardcover

Ryan Hart loves to spend time with her friends, loves to invent recipes, and has a lot on her mind—… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Ways to Make Sunshine (Ryan Hart, #1) book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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18. Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story

By: Sarah Myer

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Eisner Award Nomination: Best Publication for Teens "A beautiful, courageous book.” Gene Luen Y… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Myer's Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • nonfiction
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19. Junior High (Tegan and Sara #1)

By: Tegan Quin

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

AN INDIE BESTSELLER From indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara comes a contemporary middle grad… read more

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  • middle grade
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20. Say My Name

By: Joanna Ho

4.22

Format: None pages, None

"In moving, lyrical prose, the book celebrates the beauty and sounds of each name alongside their c… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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21. When You Can Swim

By: Jack Wong

4.15

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award A reverent celebration of learning to s… read more

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  • childrens
  • canada
  • picture books
  • nature
  • juvenile
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22. Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By: Chelsea Vowel

4.13

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • indigenous
Cover of Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow by Aimée Craft

23. Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

By: Aimée Craft

4.44

Format: 60 pages, Hardcover

The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work toget… read more

Similar categories in Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • history
  • childrens
  • canada
  • picture books
  • middle grade
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • juvenile
"The beauty of their silence was in everything that they heard around them."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

"…for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Like the original treaty."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

"Every person was born with a set of spiritual instructions or understandings, my girl. It’s what we do with it that defines us as human beings."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

"By having the sun rise every day, the earth and the sky are renewing their commitment to work together. And we in turn honor that relationship and directly benefit from it."

-Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

Cover of Phoenix Gets Greater by Marty Wilson-Trudeau

24. Phoenix Gets Greater

By: Marty Wilson-Trudeau

4.02

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

A powerful story about the importance of family acceptance. Phoenix loves to play with dolls and… read more

Similar categories in Marty Wilson-Trudeau's Phoenix Gets Greater book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • canada
  • indigenous
Cover of The Secret of the Ravens by Joanna Cacao

25. The Secret of the Ravens

By: Joanna Cacao

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this charming middle grade graphic novel, orphan twins Elliot and Liza find themselves taking on… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Cacao's The Secret of the Ravens book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of 47,000 Beads by Koja Adeyoha

26. 47,000 Beads

By: Koja Adeyoha

4.49

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Peyton loves to dance, and especially at pow wow, but her Auntie notices that she's been dancing le… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • indigenous
Cover of Weird Rules to Follow by Kim   Spencer

27. Weird Rules to Follow

By: Kim Spencer

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

★ “Readers will be left with a rich image of Mia’s world and the family and people that surround he… read more

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  • childrens
  • canada
  • middle grade
  • indigenous
  • juvenile
Cover of Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan Sinclair

28. Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

By: Niigaan Sinclair

4.65

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

From ground zero of this country's most important reconciliationNiigaan Sinclair has been called p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
Cover of Unlearning: Changing Your Beliefs and Your Classroom with Udl by Allison Posey

29. Unlearning: Changing Your Beliefs and Your Classroom with Udl

By: Allison Posey

3.82

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) suggests exciting ways to design and deliver engaging, rigorous… read more

Similar categories in Allison Posey's Unlearning: Changing Your Beliefs and Your Classroom with Udl book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • nonfiction
Cover of That's Not My Name! by Anoosha Syed

30. That's Not My Name!

By: Anoosha Syed

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

A debut picture book about loving your name, finding your voice, and standing up for yourself from … read more

Similar categories in Anoosha Syed's That's Not My Name! book and Aimée Craft's Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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31. Still My Tessa

By: Sylv Chiang

4.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A gently affirming story of the connection between siblings. Evelyn is worried about Tessa. Tessa d… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens

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The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

Louise Erdrich

4.04

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The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Jon Klassen

4.26

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Joseph Bruchac

4.05

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No Fixed Address

Susin Nielsen

4.24

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Maia Kobabe

4.28

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Trinity Neal

4.28

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Gavin Grimm

4.36

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