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Elatsoe

Darcie Little Badger

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Elatsoe won the National Indie Bestseller award, was named to TIME's Best 100 Fantasy Books of All Time, NPR's Best Books of 2020, Booklist's Top 10 First Novels for Youth, BookPage's Best Books of 2020, Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2020, and Kirkus's Best YA Books of 2020. A Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer. Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals—most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered. Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and its dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started? A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.

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Publisher
Levine Querido
Year
2020
ISBN-13
9781646140060
Genre
Young AdultFantasy
Topics
Murder mysteryIndigenous culture and heritageFamily and ancestryGhosts and the supernaturalFriendship

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