Best Children's and Young Adult Books about Ancient Americas

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The Highlander (The Rise of the Aztecs, #1)
The Highlander (The Rise of the Aztecs, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 985 ratings
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Obsidian Puma (The Aztec Chronicles #1)
Obsidian Puma (The Aztec Chronicles #1) 4.46 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Young Jaguar (Pre-Aztec Series, #1)
The Young Jaguar (Pre-Aztec Series, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 4.06 avg rating — 281,431 ratings
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The Warrior's Way (Pre-Aztec series, #3)
The Warrior's Way (Pre-Aztec series, #3) 4.49 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses 4.05 avg rating — 12,305 ratings
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The Jaguar Warrior (Pre-Aztec Series, #2)
The Jaguar Warrior (Pre-Aztec Series, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Up and Down the Andes: A Peruvian Festival Tale
Up and Down the Andes: A Peruvian Festival Tale 3.79 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House, #6)
Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House, #6) 3.97 avg rating — 18,528 ratings
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How to Be an Aztec Warrior
How to Be an Aztec Warrior really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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You Wouldn't Want to Be an Aztec Sacrifice! Gruesome Things You'd Rather Not Know
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Aztec Sacrifice! Gruesome Things You'd Rather Not Know really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Aztec News
The Aztec News 3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection 3.55 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
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Kokopelli's Flute
Kokopelli's Flute 3.65 avg rating — 570 ratings
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Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
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The First Americans: Prehistory-1600 (A History of US, Book One)
The First Americans: Prehistory-1600 (A History of US, Book One)
by: Joy Hakim
3.88 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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Field of Fire (The Aztec Chronicles #2)
Field of Fire (The Aztec Chronicles #2) 4.67 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Buffalo Woman
Buffalo Woman 4.05 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Heart of the Battle (The Aztec Chronicles #3)
Heart of the Battle (The Aztec Chronicles #3) 4.81 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Secrets in Stone : All About Maya Hieroglyphics
Secrets in Stone : All About Maya Hieroglyphics 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Sun's Daughter
The Sun's Daughter 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Morning Star (The Aztec Chronicles #5)
Morning Star (The Aztec Chronicles #5) 4.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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All Our Relatives: Traditional Native American Thoughts about Nature
All Our Relatives: Traditional Native American Thoughts about Nature 3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Valley of Shadows (The Aztec Chronicles #6)
Valley of Shadows (The Aztec Chronicles #6) 4.60 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Montezuma and the Fall of the Aztecs
Montezuma and the Fall of the Aztecs 3.41 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest 4.11 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Hummingbird King: A Guatemalan Legend
The Hummingbird King: A Guatemalan Legend 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Step Into The Inca World
Step Into The Inca World 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Sungods and Sacrifice: Lost World of the Aztecs, Inca and Maya
Sungods and Sacrifice: Lost World of the Aztecs, Inca and Maya really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer!: Fortunes You'd Rather Not Tell
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer!: Fortunes You'd Rather Not Tell 3.94 avg rating — 119 ratings
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You Wouldn't Want to Be an Inca Mummy!
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Inca Mummy! 4.03 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881
Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout: White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Incredible Incas
The Incredible Incas 4.03 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
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Two Mountains
Two Mountains 3.62 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival
Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Angry Aztecs
Angry Aztecs 3.97 avg rating — 1,929 ratings
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Hiawatha and the Peacemaker
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker 4.25 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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Rain Player
Rain Player 4.02 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The Sign of the Beaver
The Sign of the Beaver 3.87 avg rating — 39,017 ratings
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Rain Forests (Magic Tree House Research Guide, #5)
Rain Forests (Magic Tree House Research Guide, #5) 4.16 avg rating — 886 ratings
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The Buffalo and the Indians: A Shared Destiny
The Buffalo and the Indians: A Shared Destiny 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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DK Eyewitness Books: Aztec, Inca & Maya: Discover the World of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas―
DK Eyewitness Books: Aztec, Inca & Maya: Discover the World of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas― 3.93 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Warrior Beast (The Aztec Chronicles #4)
Warrior Beast (The Aztec Chronicles #4) 4.87 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Coyote and the Fire Stick: A Pacific Northwest Indian Tale
Coyote and the Fire Stick: A Pacific Northwest Indian Tale 3.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Tikal
Tikal 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Fisherman and the Turtle
The Fisherman and the Turtle 3.90 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales
The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales 4.12 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Coyote and the Turtle's Dream (Eagle Books #1)
Coyote and the Turtle's Dream (Eagle Books #1) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Great Kapok Tree
The Great Kapok Tree 4.25 avg rating — 6,020 ratings
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The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman
The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman 4.08 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Chocolate Tree: A Mayan Folktale
The Chocolate Tree: A Mayan Folktale 3.74 avg rating — 90 ratings
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D Is for Drum: A Native American Alphabet
D Is for Drum: A Native American Alphabet 3.93 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Star Boy
Star Boy 4.16 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,680 ratings
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Find Out About: Native Americans: What Life Was Like for the Nomadic Tribes Who Roamed The Great Plains
Find Out About: Native Americans: What Life Was Like for the Nomadic Tribes Who Roamed The Great Plains 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Love Flute
Love Flute 4.08 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Ten Little Rabbits
Ten Little Rabbits 3.86 avg rating — 465 ratings
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The Legend of Ohio
The Legend of Ohio 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Anasazi
Anasazi
by: Rose Houk
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Man Who Dreamed of Elk-Dogs & Other Stories from the Tipi
The Man Who Dreamed of Elk-Dogs & Other Stories from the Tipi 3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Talking Leaves
Talking Leaves 3.88 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Art Across the Ages: Ancient Mexico
Art Across the Ages: Ancient Mexico 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Stories in Stone: Rock Art Pictures by Early Americans
Stories in Stone: Rock Art Pictures by Early Americans 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde
The Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde 3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Lady of Palenque : Flower of Bacal, Mesoamerica, A.D. 749
Lady of Palenque : Flower of Bacal, Mesoamerica, A.D. 749 3.29 avg rating — 1,446 ratings
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Mayan and Aztec Mythology
Mayan and Aztec Mythology 3.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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City of the Gods
City of the Gods 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Aztecs
The Aztecs 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Aztec
Aztec 3.93 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend
Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend 4.24 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Spider Spins a Story: Fourteen Legends from Native America
Spider Spins a Story: Fourteen Legends from Native America
by: Jill Max
4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Incas: Find Out About Series
The Incas: Find Out About Series 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears 3.85 avg rating — 965 ratings
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The Ancient Maya
The Ancient Maya
by: Lila Perl
3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Incas and Machu Picchu
The Incas and Machu Picchu 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World
Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World
by: Ari Berk
3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Buried Beneath Us: Discovering the Ancient Cities of the Americas
Buried Beneath Us: Discovering the Ancient Cities of the Americas 3.11 avg rating — 45 ratings
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First Woman and the Strawberry: A Cherokee Legend
First Woman and the Strawberry: A Cherokee Legend 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
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On This Long Journey, the Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, the Trail of Tears, 1838
On This Long Journey, the Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, the Trail of Tears, 1838 3.67 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message (Reading Rainbow Book)
Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message (Reading Rainbow Book) 4.28 avg rating — 568 ratings
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The First Strawberries
The First Strawberries 4.10 avg rating — 1,244 ratings
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Crazy Horse's Vision
Crazy Horse's Vision 4.05 avg rating — 353 ratings
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DK Eyewitness Books: North American Indian: Discover the Rich Cultures of American Indians―from Pueblo Dwellers to Inuit Hun
DK Eyewitness Books: North American Indian: Discover the Rich Cultures of American Indians―from Pueblo Dwellers to Inuit Hun 4.03 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
by: Aliki
3.66 avg rating — 119 ratings
85.
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story 4.15 avg rating — 404 ratings
86.
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush 4.20 avg rating — 4,946 ratings
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Turtle People
Turtle People 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Boy Who Made Dragonfly: A Zuni Myth
The Boy Who Made Dragonfly: A Zuni Myth 4.20 avg rating — 329 ratings
89.
Why the North Star Stands Still And Other Indian Legends
Why the North Star Stands Still And Other Indian Legends 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
90.
Trail of Tears (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5)
Trail of Tears (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5) 3.99 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Long-Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee
Long-Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee 4.14 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Navajos
Navajos 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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If You Lived With The Hopi Indians
If You Lived With The Hopi Indians 4.15 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Spirit of the Harvest: North American Indian Cooking
Spirit of the Harvest: North American Indian Cooking 4.07 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Patchwork: Seminole and Miccosukee Art and Activities
Patchwork: Seminole and Miccosukee Art and Activities 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes
The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes 4.01 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu 4.16 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Corn Grows Ripe
The Corn Grows Ripe 3.46 avg rating — 1,123 ratings
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Middleworld (Jaguar Stones, #1)
Middleworld (Jaguar Stones, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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Coyote Stories for Children: Tales from Native America
Coyote Stories for Children: Tales from Native America 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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