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Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

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Warrior Girl Unearthed

by Angeline Boulley

Narrator Isabella Star LaBlanc

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Length 11 hours 32 minutes

Language English

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Bookseller recommendation

“A companion novel to the bestselling Firekeeper's Daughter, I loved this edge of your seat mystery delving into issues of Indigenous artifacts, ancestors and missing girls. Set over the course of a summer Perry Firekeeper-Birch is an intern in for the tribe's affairs and gives us an inside peak at this world. Things heat up quick when she learns about the local college not repatriating the tribes artifacts and ancestors bones and she makes a series of decisions that will change everything. All the while there is a mystery involving missing indigenous girls that comes to a shocking conclusion. A thought-provoking thriller!”
— Danica • Townie Books

Bookseller recommendation

“Perry Firekeeper-Birch's summer plans of fishing and lazing are upturned when she wrecks her Jeep and owes her Auntie Daunis for the repairs. Instead, she interns for her Ojibwe Tribe and kindles a passion for the repatriation of her ancestors' remains and cultural artifacts. Easily one of my top reads of this year, Warrior Girl Unearthed is a page-turning heist novel that not only entertained me but educated me. The audiobook is particularly compelling; Isabella Star LaBlanc is a fantastic narrator who brings Perry's wry wit to life. ”
— Chelsea • Parnassus Books

Bookseller recommendation

“Warrior Girl Unearthed is an intense book that will keep the reader gripped from beginning to end. Perry Firekeeper-Birch’s determination, dedication, and strength of spirit will inspire readers to stand up for themselves and what they believe in. ”
— Gretchen • Fiction Addiction

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About the author

#19 in Bestselling YA Fiction Audiobooks

Named One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023

"Actor Isabella Star LaBlanc excels at leading the reader deeper into the story with a tone that exudes both intriguing mystery and genuine emotion." —BookPage

"Isabella Star LaBlanc, a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota narrator, accurately delivers Native intonations and rhythms while narrating a second book about an Indigenous heroine from Sugar Island, Michigan. LaBlanc excels at weaving a gripping plot, Perry's snarky wisdom, and a lyrical blending of languages." —AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)

"LeBlanc’s captivating voice draws readers in, expressing every mundane, sweet, heartbreaking, and life-threatening moment." —School Library Journal

From the New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper’s Daughter comes a thrilling YA mystery about a Native teen who must find a way to bring an ancestor home to her tribe.

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she’s stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep.

Thankfully she has the other outcasts of the summer program, Team Misfit Toys, and even her twin sister Pauline. Together they ace obstacle courses, plan vigils for missing women in the community, and make sure summer doesn’t feel so lost after all.

But when she attends a meeting at a local university, Perry learns about the “Warrior Girl”, an ancestor whose bones and knife are stored in the museum archives, and everything changes. Perry has to return Warrior Girl to her tribe. Determined to help, she learns all she can about NAGPRA, the federal law that allows tribes to request the return of ancestral remains and sacred items. The university has been using legal loopholes to hold onto Warrior Girl and twelve other Anishinaabe ancestors’ remains, and Perry and the Misfits won’t let it go on any longer.

Using all of their skills and resources, the Misfits realize a heist is the only way to bring back the stolen artifacts and remains for good. But there is more to this repatriation than meets the eye as more women disappear and Pauline’s perfectionism takes a turn for the worse. As secrets and mysteries unfurl, Perry and the Misfits must fight to find a way to make things right – for the ancestors and for their community.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

Mystery & Thriller YA Fiction

Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel.