Language: PG (17 swears 0 'f'); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG (peril, injuries)
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
17yo Shane is a member of the almost extinct Lipan Apache tribe. Her mother has a special talent for finding lost people, and Shane has special skills too, and she helps her mother when she can. When a brother and sister go missing in the woods, and then Shane's mother disappears, too, Shane may have to rely on her unpredictable grandfather to help her. It seems there's some fairy magic causing the trouble. Shane has inherited a gift for temporarily raising the dead, but so far she keeps it to small things, mostly bugs. She has a ghost dog who is excellent at tracking, and Shane's mother has taught her well.
So many twists and turns, traditional Indigenous culture along with Fairy rings and ancient wizards with some modern science thrown in as well - I had no idea where it was going, but I loved where it took me. I have not read Elatsoe, but now I need to, as I would love to return to their world. What a great adventure. Illustrations were pencil and interesting, they weren't always obviously representing something from the following chapter, but I bet they do, I will certainly take another look.
Lisa Librarian
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