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Snake Falls to Earth, A

Darcie Little Badger

Ages: 14+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Levine Querido

ISBN: 978-1-64614-092-3

Keywords: Storytelling, Native Americans, Climate Change, LGTBQ+

When a cataclysmic event on Earth happens, the real world of Nina, a Lipan Apache teen, and the spirit world of Oli, a cottonmouth, are brought together with strange results.