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About A Snake Falls To Earth
Product Description NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEWBERY AWARD HONORAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD HONORNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTMinneapolis Star Tribune Best of the YearPublishers Weekly Best of the YearKirkus Best the YearApple Best of the YearChicago Public Library's Best of the BestNew York Public Library's Best of the YearAutostraddle's Best Queer Books of the Year"A spellbinding tale."—Texas Monthly"Genre-bending."—TIME"Undeniably charming."—Tor.com★ "Evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral storytelling."—Kirkus (starred)★ "Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers."—Publishers Weekly (starred)★ "Magical, stunning, and wholly original."—Booklist (starred)"A highly descriptive story which absorbs the audience into its world, readers will become invested in reading until the very end."—School Library ConnectionA Snake Falls to Earth is a breathtaking work of Indigenous futurism. Darcie Little Badger draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family. It is not to be missed.Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake.Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven't been in centuries.And there are some who will kill to keep them apart. From School Library Journal Gr 7-10-Little Badger's sophomore effort is an atmospheric, world-straddling, dual-narrative tale laced with themes of climate change, family, and identity. Nina is a Lipan girl living in Texas, a budding documentarian working to find her voice. As she hones her videos over the years, she also works to decipher tales of her family's history-stories full of animal people and the Reflecting World. Oli is a young cottonmouth, sent away by his mother to find his own way. Lost and beset upon by monsters, he eventually makes a home on the banks of a bottomless lake, where he befriends a frog and two coyote twins. When Oli's frog friend and Nina's grandmother are endangered because of climate troubles on Earth, their lives intertwine. Magic and monsters combine with internet stardom and hurricane warnings to create a wonderful fable set in modern-day Texas. Following traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure, this is an entertaining and illuminating look at how traditions and magic can exist in the modern world. Oli and his friends are delightful to read about, while Nina's human concerns and love for her grandmother shine. VERDICT A modern-day fable with real-world significance, perfect for magical realism fans and fantasy lovers alike.-Elissa Bongiorno, Washington, DCα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. Review “Both authentic and original. Strong, subtle worldbuilding allows readers to immerse themselves in Nina’s near future world of increased climate change and advanced social media technology and in Oli’s magical world of spirits, monsters, and old stories come to life.” -The Hub (a YALSA Blog), [STAR] “Evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral storytelling.”-Kirkus Reviews (starred), [STAR] “Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers.”- Publishers Weekly (starred), [STAR] “Magical, stunning, and wholly original.”-Booklist (starred), “A highly descriptive story with open dialogue which absorbs the audience into its world, readers will become invested in reading until the very end."-School Library Connection, "Though the stakes are high, Little Badger takes time to explo
