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The Art Thieves
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ISBN10: 1646143787
ISBN13: 9781646143788
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: Oct 8 2024
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781646143788
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: Oct 8 2024
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Nnedi Okorafor meets Angeline Boulley in this gripping story of hope (and time travel!) amid climate collapse
BEST OF THE YEAR: Shelf Awareness * Cooperative Children's Book Center TO: Angel Wilson (LawAngel@IBLO.gov)FROM: Stevie Henry (shenry@gmail.com)
Thanks for coming to see me; but by the time you read this, it will be too late. No one will have started to panic, yet; but in less than two months nothing will be the same. What came first, The Chicken or the Egg Flu? I wish it mattered. But let's just say, maybe go back to wearing a mask, bathing in sanitizer, and avoid birds and eggs for a bit... I did not kill my brother. I did quite the opposite, really. It's the year 2052. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire ... but people get by. But it's about to get a whole lot worse. When a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie's museum saying that he's from the future -- and telling her what is to come -- she refuses to believe him. But soon she will have no choice. From the author of the Walter Award-winning Man Made Monsters comes a YA novel that conjures our futures in startling life - the ones that we are headed towards, and the ones we can still work towards. P R A I S E The Art Thieves is a book that is both exciting to read and deeply thoughtful about our reality as well as the larger literary landscape of post-apocalyptic fiction. I couldn't put it down, and as soon as I finished reading, I wanted to find something else like it. I even found myself hoping that Rogers might be working on a series. The Art Thieves is reminiscent of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and is in conversation with Afrofuturism more broadly.
-- Southern Review of Books ★ Rogers employs smart and empathetic prose to present a realistically rendered science fiction tale that is at once adrenaline-pumping and emotionally moving. In this gripping adventure, Rogers considers the future of Indigenous heritage via an indomitable protagonist who, alongside a plethora of memorably realized characters, navigates tough issues relating to death, familial turmoil, exploitation, and climate collapse.
-- Publishers Weekly (starred) ★ A stirring story about choosing to create a new future when disaster seems inevitable Rogers's sophomore YA novel skillfully discusses the current affairs, pop culture, and climate-change related extreme weather events of the future and powerfully relates them to historical and contemporary legacies of racism and oppression.... Award-winning author Andrea L. Rogers paints a stunning picture of what it means to hope for a better future and the strength it might take to make that future real.
-- Shelf-Awareness (starred) Sharp social commentary folded into an all-too-believable dystopian setting.
--Kirkus
-- Publishers Weekly (starred) ★ A stirring story about choosing to create a new future when disaster seems inevitable Rogers's sophomore YA novel skillfully discusses the current affairs, pop culture, and climate-change related extreme weather events of the future and powerfully relates them to historical and contemporary legacies of racism and oppression.... Award-winning author Andrea L. Rogers paints a stunning picture of what it means to hope for a better future and the strength it might take to make that future real.
-- Shelf-Awareness (starred) Sharp social commentary folded into an all-too-believable dystopian setting.
--Kirkus
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