#Angeline boulley

[npdclaraoswald]

Another crosspost from my Instagram! This time for International Women's Day! As far as I know, all of these authors identify as women, but please let me know if I'm wrong!

Details of the authors and their books under the cut, because this would be a long post otherwise

Kai Cheng Thom, author of From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by (illustrated by Kai Yun Ching), Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World, and A Place Called No Homeland

Darcie Little Badger, author of Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth and contributor to Love After the End: An Anthology of Two Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead and Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time edited by Hope Nicholson

Angeline Boulley, author of The Firekeeper's Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed

NK Jemisin author of the Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky), The City We Became, Far Sector (illustrated by Jamal Campbell), How Long 'til Black Future Month?, and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Seanan McGuire, author of Into the Drowning Deep (under a pseudonym) and The Wayward Children series (Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Beneath the Suger Sky, In an Absent Dream, Come Tumbling Down, Across the Green Grass Fields, Where the Drowned Girls Go, and Lost in the Moment and Found)

Octavia Butler, author of Kindred, The Earthseed Duology (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents), and Fledgling

Talia Hibbert, author of The Brown Sisters Trilogy (Get a Life, Chloe Brown; Take a Hint, Dani Brown; and Act Your Age, Eve Brown)

Rebecca Roanhorse, author of the Between Earth and Sky Trilogy (of which I have read Black Sun and Fevered Star), Race to the Sun, and Tread of Angels and contributor to Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids edited by Cynthia Lietich Smith

Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves Duology (The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars), Empire for Wild, and Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

I have also read the Marvel Indigenous collection that Little Badger and Roanhorse contributed to and McGuire's Ghost Spider series, but as Marvel continues to support Isreal, I continue to not support or promote Marvel

#bookblr #kai cheng thom #darcie little badger #angeline boulley #nk jemisin #seanan mcguire #octavia butler #talia hibbert #rebecca roanhorse #cherie dimaline

[the-aila-test]

A friend of mine sent me this:

For those who are unaware, Angeline Boulley is the author of The Firekeeper's Daughter which did not pass The Ali Nahdee Test but was still an excellent read, especially as an Anishinaabekwe reader <3

Her next book, Warrior Girl Unearthed, comes out May 2nd!

#angeline boulley #firekeeper's daughter #warrior girl unearthed #anishinaabe #ojibwe #ali nahdee test #literature #books #native books #indigenous books

[jennamacaroni]

Wisdom is not bestowed. In its raw state, it is the heartbreak of knowing things you wish you didn't.

Angeline Boulley, "Firekeeper's Daughter"

#angeline boulley #quotes #what i'm reading #firekeeper's daughter

[indigenous-character-tournament]

Ken Hotate is canonically Indigenous. He is of the fictitious Wamapoke tribe.

Daunis Fontaine is canonically Ojibwe.

#indigenous character tournament #tournament poll #ict round 2 #parks and recreation #ken hotate #firekeeper's daughter #angeline boulley #daunis fontaine

[the-dust-jacket]

Congratulations to all of the 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Award honorees! These are the Medalists and Honor books in the YA category.

#Americn Indian Youth Literature Awards #Rez Ball #Byron Graves #Funeral Songs For Dying Girls #Cherie Dimaline #Man Made Monsters #Andrea L. Rogers #Jeff Edwards #Warrior Girl Unearthed #Angeline Boulley #Running With Changing Woman #Lorinda Martinez #Heroes of the Water Monster #Brian Young #are all of these middle grade? No #but I will not be pedantic I will focus on how freaking pretty they all look together and how happy I am for people #ALA Youth Media Awards

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

#books #ya #realistic fiction #firekeeper's daughter #angeline boulley #poll

[mydailybookquotes]

“Wisdom is not bestowed. In its raw state, it is the heartbreak of knowing things you wish you didn’t.”

-Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

#quotes #book quotes #books #mydailybookquotes #inspirational quotes #inspire #life quotes #inspiring quotes #life #wisdom #wise #angeline boulley #firekeeper’s daughter #page 393 #bookblr

[richincolor]

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

Summary: Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry begins to question everything.

In order to reclaim this inheritance for her people, Perry has no choice but to take matters into her own hands. She can only count on her friends and allies, including her overachieving twin and a charming new boy in town with unwavering morals. Old rivalries, sister secrets, and botched heists cannot - will not - stop her from uncovering the mystery before the ancestors and missing women are lost forever.

Sometimes, the truth shouldn't stay buried.

My thoughts: Angeline Boulley has created another fabulous page-turner in her second book. If you've already read Firekeeper's Daughter, this is an excellent follow-up set in the same community, but a few years later. It's a companion rather than a sequel, so it can be read on its own though. I recommend reading both, because they are incredible, but this one can stand on its own.

Perry is character who charms or frustrates those around her. She had me smiling as she teased Luke-Ass and other people around her, but also when she told her little cousin that he has her heart using a fishing analogy. She's sixteen and while she can be laidback, at times she can be incredibly passionate and jump into things full force.

She has many adults around her that are guiding her with advice and yet they give her room to live her life. Several times she is mentally reviewing the exact instructions she's had from her family about how to respond when there is trouble. Missing and murdered indigenous women are often on the minds of her family and community and there are way too many reasons for Perry and others to have all kinds of strategies for when they are vulnerable.

Perry has obviously grown up knowing about the risks to those of her gender, skin color, and culture, but as she works in her internship, she also learns about how ancestral remains have gone missing throughout the years. Not only have they been stolen, even with laws in place requiring their return, few have been recovered. Perry's heart is broken when she meets the remains of the Warrior Girl being kept by a non-native institution. For anyone unaware of the issues around the repatriation of ancestral remains, this book may be very illuminating. For some readers, this will not be new information but there is a great list of resources at the end that may be interesting for anyone. There are multiple moments that speak to the emotional work that Perry and others are having to do when seeing these items and hearing from elders about the losses. There's an acknowledgement of the harms that this continues to do to the descendants of those people.

Throughout the book, the characters are central even though there is a lot happening. What I appreciate about Angeline Boulley's writing is that there are intriguing mysteries to untangle, but beyond that, there are many layered characters and she makes me want to meet them and spend more time with them.

Recommendation: Get it soon. This book is tagged as a mystery or thriller, but it is also a book filled with love. It's about identity, community, the continued affects of colonialism, and so much more. This is a book that will stay with readers for a long time.

Extras:

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company Pages: 396 Availability: On shelves now Review copy: Final copy via library

#angeline boulley #young adult lit #book review

[mercerislandbooks]

Book Notes: Warrior Girl Unearthed

You know how it feels when you read a book that comes out of nowhere and you’re totally blown away? And then that author comes out with their second book and you both really, really want to read it and you’re also afraid it won’t live up to the experience of the first? That was me with Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley. I’d listened to Boulley’s first novel, Firekeeper’s Daughter, and I loved that it was so different from anything I’d read before. The audio book gave me an aural experience of the Anishinaabemowin language that I certainly wouldn’t have had just by reading the book. It was so many things at once — a crime novel, a bittersweet romance, a coming of age story of a young woman with a foot in two very different cultures, trying to reconcile what she can, let go of what she can’t. It was beautiful and heartbreaking and informative without being preachy. So when Warrior Girl Unearthed came out this month, I felt an internal hesitation before opening it up. One night I decided to just read a chapter or two, see what I thought. The next thing I knew I was half way through the book.

You don’t need to have read Firekeeper’s Daughter to enjoy Warrior Girl Unearthed, but it is set ten years later in the same community. Our protagonist, Perry Firekeeper-Birch, is the young cousin of Daunis Fontaine, the central character of Firekeeper’s Daughter. Perry is all set to have a summer of slack in 2014, but an incident with a bear, her car, and a metal fence leaves her in debt to her Aunt Daunis, who signs her up for the last spot in the Kinomaage Summer Internship program. Perry is assigned to work with Cooper Turtle, the supervisor of the tribal museum, and through his mentorship begins to learn about the ancestral remains languishing in universities and museums (despite laws requiring their cataloging and repatriation to the tribes they belonged to). Perry’s sense of justice is kindled and then put to the test as she learns the extent to which artifacts are being withheld from their original tribes. In the meantime, women from the community are going missing and Perry doesn’t want to be next.

This was just as compelling a read as Firekeeper’s Daughter. Once I started, I couldn’t put it down. And, like with Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Boulley is a master at giving the reader a window into Perry’s life as a mixed Native and Black young woman — life within the tribal community of Sault Ste Marie and Sugar Island — and the weighty history that each person carries with them. I felt like I learned alongside Perry about the history of ancestral remains and the efforts of tribes to repatriate the bones and the cultural materials of their people. I felt Perry’s frustration at the way in which people and institutions refuse to respect those bones and artifacts. Boulley includes a list of resources at the end so the reader can dive deeper into the original materials Cooper assigns Perry to read in the book. And the book itself is gorgeous, with a cover designed by Caldecott winner Michaela Goade (We Are Water Protectors). Island Books also has a limited supply of beautiful page overlays from Goade to enjoy as a gift with purchase!

— Lori

#island books #lori robinson #warrior girl unearthed #angeline boulley #firekeeper’s daughter #yareads #michaela goade #booknotes

[caribeandthebooks]

Caribe's Young Adult Fiction TBR - Part 1

#highly suspicious and unfairly cute #talia hibbert #warrior girl unearthed #angeline boulley #the inheritance games #jennifer lynn barnes #instructions for dancing #nicola yoon #turtles all the way down #john green #eleanor & park #rainbow rowell #young adult fiction #book tumblr #booklr #bookblr #books #book blog #tbr jar #tbr list

[the-final-sentence]

‘Bigiiwen enji zaagigooyin, Ogichidaakwezans.’

Angeline Boulley, from Warrior Girl Unearthed

#warrior girl unearthed #angeline boulley

[quoteablebooks]

When you love someone, but don’t like parts of them, it complicates your memories of them when they’re gone.

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

#firekeeper's daughter #angeline boulley

[the-aila-test]

I finished reading Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley.

Daunis does not pass The Ali Nahdee Test, but do not let that dissuade you from reading it. This is a wonderful book. I've learned so much and saw so much of myself in this story.

#firekeeper's daughter #angeline boulley #ali nahdee test #failed #literature

[indigenous-character-tournament]

Revali is Indigenous-coded. He is part of the Rito, who shares a similar culture to many Andean tribes. One of the submitters provided [this analysis], which included research into pottery, textiles, and architecture.

Daunis Fontaine is canonically Ojibwe.

#indigenous character tournament #ict round 1 #tournament poll #the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #revali #botw revali #firekeeper's daughter #daunis fontaine #angeline boulley

[kalynnapplewhite]

Firekeeper's Daughter 🔥❤️

A beautiful piece of indigenous fem lit with an amazingly full main character. Mystery, suspense, and a dash of romance.

Highly recommend 👏

#books #book review #angeline boulley #firekeepers daughter #indigenous

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Warrior Girl Unearthed | Author: Angeline Boulley | Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (2023)

#books #Warrior Girl Unearthed #Angeline Boulley