About

Christine Day is a citizen of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. Her novel, We Still Belong, won the American Indian Youth Literature Award, and three of her books have received American Indian Youth Literature Award honors. Christine lives with her family in the rainy and resplendent Pacific Northwest.

Her work is represented by Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc.

Selected Recognitions

I Can Make This Promise was an American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Book and a Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book in 2020.

I Can Make This Promise was a Best Book of 2019 from NPR, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and the Chicago Public Library.

I Can Make This Promise was nominated for the following statewide awards and reading lists: the Rhode Island Middle School Book Award (2021); the Vermont Golden Dome Books Award (2021); the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award in Illinois (2022); the Sasquatch Book Award in Washington State (2022); the Land of Enchantment Book Award—Lizard Nominee in New Mexico (2022); an Oregon Battle of the Books selection (2022); an Alaska Battle of the Books selection (2024).

I Can Make This Promise was also selected as an ALA Notable Children’s Book, a Publisher’s Weekly Flying Start selection, a Project Lit Book Club selection, and an MG at Heart Book Club selection.

The Sea in Winter was an American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor Book and a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award in 2022.

The Sea in Winter was a Top 10 Indie Kids’ Next List Selection in Winter 2020-2021.

The Sea in Winter was a Best Book of 2021 from Indigo, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and BookPage.

The Sea in Winter was also selected as an ALA Notable Children’s Book, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and a “Great Reads from Great Places” selection to represent Washington State in the National Book Festival.

We Still Belong was an American Indian Youth Literature Award Winner in 2024.

We Still Belong was a Best Book of 2023 from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, the Chicago Public Library, and the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature.

We Still Belong was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Parnassus Books “Spark Book Club” selection, and a Dog-Eared Books “Good Books Young Troublemakers Book Club” selection.

We Still Belong was included in the Texas Lone Star Reading List (2024), and the Michigan “MISelf in Books” Reading List (2023).

Selected Press & Recordings

Chelsea Clinton, Deborah Heiligman, Ruby Shamir, Christine Day, and Jewell Parker Rhodes in conversation for the She Persisted series.

Christine was a featured guest on the BiblioFiles, a podcast created and produced by Princeton University’s Cotsen Children’s Library.

Best Middle Grade of 2023: Christine Day, profile from Kirkus Reviews.

Upper Skagit novelist shares journey as a writer, for King 5.

“Real-life family mystery inspires debut novel ‘I Can Make This Promise,’” by Mary Quattlebaum for The Washington Post.

“Books can be an entry to talking about sadness with your child,” by Lakshmi Gandhi for The Washington Post.

“The Thing About Corn,” by Christine Day for the HarperKids blog on Medium.

“Behind the Book: Christine Day, author of I Can Make This Promise,” on the HarperStacks blog.