About

Christine Day is a citizen of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. She is the award-winning author of I Can Make This Promise, The Sea in Winter, She Persisted: Maria Tallchief, and We Still Belong. Her shorter works have also appeared in the anthologies Ancestor Approved, Faeries Never Lie, and Our Stories, Our Voices. Christine lives with her family in the rainy and resplendent Pacific Northwest.

Contact:

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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 Michigan “MISelf in Books” Reading List (2020); 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); the Oregon Battle of the Books (2022); the California Department of Education Recommended List (2022); the Garden State Teen Book Awards in New Jersey (2022); the Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader’s Choice Awards (2022); the Alaska Battle of the Books (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 nominated for the following statewide awards and reading lists: the Michigan “MISelf in Books” Reading Lists (2021); the Nevada Reading Week Book List (2023); the New Mexico Battle of the Books (2023).

The Sea in Winter was 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 nominated for the following statewide awards and reading lists: the Michigan “MISelf in Books” Reading List (2023); the Texas Lone Star Reading List (2024); the New Mexico Battle of the Books (2025); the South Dakota Teen Choice Award (2025); the Volunteer State Book Awards in Tennessee (2025).

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.