Warrior Girl Unearthed

By Angeline Boulley,

Book cover of Warrior Girl Unearthed

Book description

A Financial Times Best YA Summer Book 2023

#1 New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley takes us back into the world of Firekeeper's Daughter in this high-stakes mystery about the power of discovering your stolen history.

HONOUR YOUR ROOTS. BREAK THE RULES. UNCOVER THE TRUTH.

Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

2 authors picked Warrior Girl Unearthed as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read this book because I loved Fire Keeper’s Daughter. Boulley’s writing is gripping. Her characters are fully realized, and her fast-moving plots are unpredictable.

I have a middle-grade novel in production that is about my great-grandfather (Dakota/Ojibwe ancestry, born and raised in the Minnesota territory). While writing the book, I read every middle-grade and YA novel I could find by native writers.

This YA novel told a great story and told it well. It was good to catch up with the characters from Fire Keeper’s Daughter and learn more about the protagonist, Perry—a great character with a strongly…

Like Boulley’s first book, Firekeeper's Daughter, Warrior Girl Unearthed reminds me, in a good way, of the need in this country to ensure that everyone understands the atrocities that have been committed against the indigenous and people of color. And that is why this book is another must-read to me.

Boulley does an excellent job of creating real people with universal problems as well as problems specific to their culture that we must all come to understand.

I learned so much about the indigenous culture in the U. P. of Michigan from Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (#MMIW) to the…

Want books like Warrior Girl Unearthed?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Warrior Girl Unearthed.

Browse books like Warrior Girl Unearthed

Book cover of Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg
Book cover of Murder on the Red River
Book cover of Evil Dead Center: A Mystery

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,394

readers submitted
so far, will you?

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in the Ojibwe, American Indians, and Minnesota?

The Ojibwe 38 books
American Indians 231 books
Minnesota 73 books