With Willowbee’s bicentennial just days away, the time is right to vanquish a horror that’s preyed on Native people for far too long.ĭarcie Little Badger’s Elatsoe is a clever mystery narrated by a teen whose voice radiates with wonderful self-confidence. As Ellie gathers evidence, pieces together clues and retells the myth-tinged adventures of her six-generations-back great-grandmother, whom she calls Six-Great, it becomes clear that the cousin’s murder is part of a larger secret. Together with her parents and her friend Jay, Ellie travels to Willowbee to uncover the truth about Abe Allerton, who by all external appearances has led a virtuous life. Then her cousin visits her in a dream, says that a man named Abe Allerton murdered him and asks her to protect his family from further harm.
The picture-perfect façade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family" - Publisher's description.In an alternate Texas where major cities have Fairy Ring Transport Centers and the university offers an invasive monster program, Ellie, a Lipan Apache teenager, just wants to reincarnate prehistoric fossils and teach her ghost dog new tricks.
Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Seventeen-year-old Elatsoe ("Ellie" for short) lives in this slightly stranger America. But other forces are less charming and should never see the light of day. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice. "Imagine an America very similar to our own.
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