A Snake Falls to Earth
“Draws on her scientific training and tribal storytelling to weave a spellbinding tale.”
Texas Monthly
Winner of the Reading the West Book Award for Young Adults
A Newbery Honor Book
Longlisted for the National Book Award
An American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A Minneapolis Star-Tribune Pick of Best Books of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She has 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 some will kill to keep them apart.
Darcie Little Badger introduced herself to the world with Elatsoe. In A Snake Falls to Earth, she draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family.
It is not to be missed.
Praise