This book brilliantly blends Native cultures, hardscrabble Norther Michigan life and fantasy and mystery elements!

From the first glimpse of its arresting cover image to the sympathetic voice of its teenage heroine, Daunis Fontaine, Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, is an engrossing read. Daunis must navigate life as best she can, between her white mother's establishment family and her dead father's even older and prouder Ojibwe clan. She does her best as a graduating senior, valedictorian, star hockey player and all around good kid, on her way to community college so she can stay and help her mother with her ailing grandmother, despite the distractions of the new boy in town, Jaime, and the pull between worlds that Daunis has always had to navigate. But when murder comes to her small community and threatens to divide it forever, it might be only the girl who knows both the Firekeeper and Fontaine sides who can save it. Powerful and illuminating, and and positively NOT to be put down while reading!