#heartdrum

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Your heart is your compass - when in doubt, follow its whispers of kindness, love, and courage, and you'll never lose your way.

Let your heart guide you, for it knows the true and authentic route to get you where you need to be.

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Happy Native American Heritage Day! Heartdrum is a Native-focused imprint curated by Cynthia Leitich Smith that offers a wide range of stories by Native creators, informed and inspired by lived experience, with an emphasis on the present and future of Indian Country and on the strength of young Native heroes.

Read more about each book and download the educator guide here.

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Heartdrum books available for preorder:

Just Like Grandma by Kim Rogers, illustrated by Julie Flett (out 1/24/23)

Heroes of the Water Monster by Brian Young (out 5/23/23)

We Still Belong by Christine Day (out 8/1/23)

Heartdrum books currently out:

Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith

JoJo Makoons and the Used-to-Be Best Friend by Dawn Quigley, illustrated by Tara Audibert

JoJo Makoons: Fancy Pants by Dawn Quigley, illustrated by Tara Audibert

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

Ancestor Approved edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young

I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

The Sea in Winter by Christine Day

Rain is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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[Image description: The top image is a graphic with a light green background and text that reads, “Heartdrum Books to Read or Preorder on Native American Heritage Day”. The next image is a graphic with a light orange background that features the cover art for JUST LIKE GRANDMA. The next image is a graphic with a light blue background that features the cover art for HEROES OF THE WATER MONSTER. The next image is a graphic with a light pink background that features the cover art for WE STILL BELONG. The last image is a graphic featuring the tiled cover images for the rest of the books listed in the post above.]

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Out this week: Two Tribes (Heartdrum, $15.99):

Emily Bowen Cohen’s debut graphic novel pulls heavily from her own life as a member of “two vibrant tribes,” as the Muscogee-Jewish writer and artist tells the story of Mia, a Muscogee who leaves Oklahoma for a new life with her mother after her parents divorce.

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

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HarperCollins Children's Books has announced the 2021 debut of Heartdrum, an imprint devoted to publishing books by Native creators, helmed by author Cynthia Leitich Smith, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation.

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Heartdrum, a new HarperCollins imprint led by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Creek) has officially launched!

Leitich Smith says: “Heartdrum is a new Native-focused imprint offering a wide range of innovative, unexpected, and heartfelt stories by Native creators, informed and inspired by lived experience, with an emphasis on the present and future of Indian Country and on the strength of young Native heroes.”

Heartdrum titles THE SEA IN WINTER by Christine Day and ANCESTOR APPROVED: INTERTRIBAL STORIES FOR KIDS, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith, are out now! More about the imprint here.

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As part of the inaugural U.S. Book Show, authors Angeline Boulley, Christine Day, David A. Robertson, and Jesse Thistle will take part in a panel on Indigenous voices on May 26 from 3:15-4 p.m. ET. The panel will be moderated by Cynthia Leitich Smith.

“Books by and about Indigenous people have been around for decades, but only in the last few years have these books drawn serious attention from all parts of the North American book business.”

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Rez Ball by Byron Graves

Rez Ball by Byron Graves. Heartdrum, 2023. 9780063160378  Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3 Format: Hardcover Genre:  Sports, realistic fiction What did you like about the book? Tre is juggling many things: grief over his older brother, who died in an accident; his passion for basketball; the challenges of prejudice against Native Americans, and a crush on a new girl in…

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Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen

Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen. Heartdrum, 2023. 9780062983589 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Paperback graphic novel Genre: Realistic fiction What did you like about the book? This is an amazing first graphic novel by Emily Bowen Cohen, an artist of Indigenous and Jewish descent. Two Tribes follows Mia as she gradually unfolds her multicultural heritage. As…

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