Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline BoulleyHigh School Holt 400 pp.5/23 9781250766588 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250766595 $11.99Boulley returns to Sugar Island, Michigan, in 2014, ten years after the events of the multi-award-winning Firekeeper’s Daughter (rev. 5/21). This novel’s protagonist is Daunis’s sixteen-year-old niece, Perry Firekeeper-Birch. Perry reluctantly joins her more-driven twin sister,...
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2023 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2023, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by Boulley’s much-lauded debut...
Winner Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 496 pp. g 3/21 978-1-250-76656-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-76657-1 $10.99 Recent high school graduate Daunis Firekeeper (known for much of the book by her white mother’s family name, Fontaine) decides to stay in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and attend Lake State...
In Angeline Boulley’s YA debut, Firekeeper’s Daughter (Holt, 14 years and up), eighteen-year-old Daunis is dragged into an investigation of the meth infiltrating her family members’ Sugar Island Ojibwe tribe — and the tragic murder of her best friend. It’s a gripping thriller, a nuanced contemporary Native story, a twisty...
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 496 pp. g 3/21 978-1-250-76656-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-76657-1 $10.99 Recent high school graduate Daunis Firekeeper (known for much of the book by her white mother’s family name, Fontaine) decides to stay in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and attend Lake State with...