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Do you like Kids and Teen's chapter books? If so, Kids Books for Adults Book Club (KBFA) is the book club for you!KBFA meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7 pm via Zoom.
The next meeting will be Tuesday, May 18, 2021.
We will be discussing the highly acclaimed* picture book, ELATSOE, by Darcie Little Badger, illustrations by Rovina Cai.
#CheckOut a copy of #ELATSOE by contacting us during open hours at 707-746-4343, mention you'd like to participate in the KBFA club and proceed to schedule your pick-up, same-day possibilities exist!
Join KBFA meeting by computer via #Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88553239003?pwd=MTJ1QXZ3em51OGw2dUd6dTEyd1gwQT09
Or by phone
1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID 885 5323 9003
Email [email protected] for the passcode, ideally, no less than an hour prior to the start of a KBFA meeting.
*Publisher Comments:
A National Indie Bestseller
TIME's Best 100 Fantasy Books of All Time
An NPR Best Book of 2020
A Booklist's Top 10 First Novel for Youth
A BookPage Best Book of 2020
A CPL Best of the Best Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020
A Buzzfeed Best YA SFF Book of 2020
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020
An AICL Best YA Book of 2020
A Kirkus Best YA Book of 2020
A Tor Best Book of 2020
PRAISE
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
FIVE STARRED REVIEWS
★ 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 M**der mystery. --Publishers Weekly, starred review
★ A Lipan Apache Sookie Stackhouse for the teen set. --Shelf-Awareness, starred review
SUMMARY:
A 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 its 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.
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Benicia Public Library, 150 E L St, Benicia, United States