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CHEROKEE BAT and WITCH BABY

Cherokee and Witch Baby don't agree on much, and they have very different tastes in books. Cherokee likes to read books by and about Native Americans, while Witch Baby likes books that are dark and spooky. Here are a few of their favorites.

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CHEROKEE'S PICKS

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Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich


Perennial · 1993 · 384 pages
A web of stories about two Native American families, filled with magic, heartbreak, and hope. Erdrich's characters are haunted by ghosts of various shades, from loneliness to war to the simple loss of their ancestral past.

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Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
by Vine Deloria, Jr.


University of Oklahoma Press · 1988 · 278 pages

A passionate and controversial book about the dangerous politics of White and Indian relations. Deloria's separatist manifesto is challenging and certain to inspire debate.

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500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians
by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.


Gramercy · 2002 · 480 pages
This extensively illustrated narrative covers the diversity of North American tribes and major civilizations which existed before Europeans arrived on the continent, from better-known tribes such as the Sioux and Chippewa to more mysterious groups such as the Anasazi and the Mississippian civilization.

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Reservation Blues
by Sherman Alexie


Warner Books · 1996 · 320 pages

After blues legend Robert Johnson appears on the Spokan Indian Reservation and gives his guitar to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire, Thomas and his band Coyote Springs set out on a journey that takes them from rural Washington to the A&R offices of a New York record company.

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When the Legends Die
by Hal Borland


Laurel Leaf · 1984 · 304 pages
A heartbreaking look at a young Ute brave who loses his culture and then his identity to the encroachments of White culture. From living on the margins of his ancestral lands to learning in the white man's schools to the rodeo circuit where the broken spirit of a bronco comes to symbolize the broken spirit of his people, Tom's journey away from the circle of life only takes him towards it once again.

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WITCH BABY'S PICKS
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Amphigorey
by Edward Gorey


Perigee Books · 1980 · 189 pages
Darkly hilarious tales from the master of the "that's-so-terrible-I-can't-believe-I'm-laughing" style of cartooning. Includes "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" and "The Doubtful Guest."

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The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation From a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century
by T.H. White


Dover Publications · 1984 · 296 pages

A catalog of factual and fanciful creatures, with commentary from the dryly witty writer of The Once and Future King.

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Emily the Strange
by Cosmic Debris, illustrated by Buzz Parker and Brian Brooks


Chronicle Books · 2001 · 64 pages
A brief but moody portrait of Emily, a gothy little girl who doesn't want to belong.

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Sandman series
by Neil Gaiman and various artists


DC Comics · 1989-ongoing · Graphic Novel

Gaiman's sprawling epic encompasses the troubles of a wide range of characters, from the lonely and all-too-normal daughter of a superhero to Lucifer himself to the Endless, the personifications of Destiny, Desire, Despair, Destruction, Delirium, Death, and Dream.

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