Firekeeper's Daughter | Angeline Boulley
Description
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick! A Printz Medal AND Morris Award Winner!
"One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels." - Good Morning America
A groundbreaking thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange.
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team.
Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug.
Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims.
Now, as the deceptions - and deaths - keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she'll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she's ever known.
Return to Sugar Island in Warrior Girl Unearthed and Sisters in the Wind. . .
Pick this up if you love:
- small-town mystery
- fake dating turns real
- edge-of-your seat suspense
- an ending you'll never see coming
Contributor Bio
Angeline Boulley , an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. She is the #1 New York Times- bestselling and Printz and Morris Awards-winning author of the Sugar Island Chronicles, which include Firekeeper's Daughter, Warrior Girl Unearthed, and Sisters in the Wind. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island.
More details
- Square Fish
- Spring 2023
- On Sale: Apr 25/23
- Paperback | 5.2 x 8.2 | 512 pages
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / Indigenous
- 14-18 years
- 9781250866035
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