Angeline Boulley brings Warrior Girl Unearthed as teenager Perry Firekeeper-Birch plans to spend her summer doing nothing until her aunt makes her take on an internship with her tribe’s summer program.
Perry’s bad attitude changes once she learns about the Warrior Girl, an ancestor whose bones are being held at the local university’s museum rather than being returned to the tribe (according to federal law). As Perry makes it her mission to help bring Warrior Girl home, she is wrapped up in more danger than she could have anticipated, leaving her fate—and Warrior Girl’s—inexorably entwined.
Boulley’s outstanding writing, gripping plot and true-to-life characters make this young adult novel come alive while also opening readers’ eyes to the challenges Native Americans encounter as they reclaim their history.
Raela Schoenherr works in marketing at a publishing company and is a lifelong lover of books and reading.
