Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
CBC Books | Posted: June 6, 2024 5:37 PM | Last Updated: June 12
A YA novel about the power of discovering your stolen history.
The bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley, takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen history.
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.
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. (From Henry Holt and Co.)
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Angeline Boulley is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Bouuley 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. Her debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, was a Reese Witherspoon book club pick and is being adapted for TV by the Obamas' Higher Ground production company. Boulley lives in southwest Michigan.