Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Macmillan Audio

Square Fish · Print & ebook · April 25, 2023

A Young Adult pick for readers exploring Firekeeper's Daughter.

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Who it’s for
A natural next pick if you’re circling Firekeeper’s Daughter and want the same conversation-friendly lane.
Genres
YA Crime Thrillers, YA Indigenous Stories, Addiction & Substance Use for Teens
Published
Square Fish, April 25, 2023

About this book

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick! A Printz Medal AND Morris Award Winner! Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.

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“One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” —Good Morning America With four starred reviews, Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims. Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known. Return to Sugar Island in Warrior Girl Unearthed...

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A natural next pick if you’re circling Firekeeper’s Daughter and want the same conversation-friendly lane.

Come here for

  • Firekeeper’s Daughter adjacent
  • YA Indigenous fiction with book-club appeal

Expect

  • Cultural literacy payoff
  • Layered YA storytelling

Where it sits

YA Crime Thrillers67%
YA Indigenous Stories56%
Addiction & Substance Use for Teens42%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Indigenous Stories
  • Addiction & Substance Use for Teens
  • YA Crime Thrillers
Authors
Angeline Boulley, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Macmillan Audio
Publisher
Square Fish
Published
April 25, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
YA Indigenous Stories