Little Badger, D: Elatsoe

Locus Award Winner-Best First NovelA National Indie BestsellerNebula Award FinalistLodestar Award FinalistIgnyte Award FinalistTIME's Best 100 Fantasy Books of All TimeNPR Best of the YearBooklist's Top 10 First Novels for YouthA BookPage Best of the YearChicago Public Library "Best of the Best"PNBA BestsellerPublishers Weekly Best of the YearBuzzfeed's Best YA SFF of the YearShelf-Awareness Best of the YearAICL Best YA of the YearNECBA Windows & Mirrors SelectionNEIBA Award FinalistTor Best of the YearKirkus Best YA of the YearPublishers Weekly Flying StartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Finalist"Groundbreaking."-TIME"Deeply enjoyable from start to finish."-NPR"Utterly magical."-SyFyWire"Atmospheric and lyrical...a gorgeous work of art."-BuzzFeed"One of the best YA debuts of 2020. Read it."-Marieke Nijkamp★ "A fresh voice and perspective."-Booklist, starred review★ "A unique and powerful Native American voice."-BookPage, starred review★ "A brilliant, engaging debut."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review★ "A fast-paced murder mystery."-Publishers Weekly, starred review★ "A Lipan Apache Sookie Stackhouse for the teen set."-Shelf-Awareness, starred reviewA Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer.Elatsoe-Ellie for short-lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals-most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered.Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and it's dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started?A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.