![]() ![]() ![]() Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers. ![]() Shes always felt there was something more out there. But when Ami grows ill, Oli knows the cure is on Earth-where he meets and helps Nina with her own problems. A Snake Falls to Earth Little Badger, Darcie, 1987- 'Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. Oli, a cottonmouth snake of the Reflecting World, has recently left his mother’s home and made friends in wolf sisters Rise and Reign as well as sweet, silent frog Ami. Their paths cross in a meaningful way, but their encounter is not the end-all and be-all of either of their narratives. Little Badger expertly intertwines the stories of her two protagonists, but I loved how neither Nina’s nor Oli’s story was really about the other person. With a basis in Apache stories, this sharply told speculative novel details Nina’s lineage from her great-great-grandmother Rosita, who has just passed away her grandmother, who’s inherited some of her Reflecting World ancestors’ healing powers and her bookstore-owning father, who distributes books to Reflecting World visitors in human form. A Snake Falls to Earth is captivating from beginning to end. The second novel by Lipan Apache author Little Badger ( Elatsoe) is a smartly intertwined, shifting-perspective story about two characters in worlds that diverged thousands of years ago: Earth-living Nina, who is nine, and Reflecting World–living Oli, 15. ![]()
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