Firekeeper’s Daughter

A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company,Higher Ground. ΓÇ£One of this year’s most buzzed about young adult novels.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöGood Morning America A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time Selection Amazon’s Best YA Book of 2021 So Far (June 2021) A 2021 Kids’ Indie Next List Selection An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Selection A PopSugar Best March 2021 YA Book Selection With four starred reviewsAngeline Boulley’s debut novelFirekeeper’s Daughteris a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her communityperfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit inboth in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at collegebut when family tragedy strikesDaunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamiethe charming new recruit on her brother LeviΓÇÖs hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamieshe senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murderthrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. ReluctantlyDaunis agrees to go undercoverdrawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imaginedexposing secrets and old scars. At the same timeshe grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims. Nowas the deceptionsΓÇöand deathsΓÇökeep growingDaunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far sheΓÇÖll go for her communityeven if it tears apart the only world sheΓÇÖs ever known.