Warrior Girl Unearthed

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was prepared for her Summer of Slack, but she is forced to labor to reimburse her Auntie Daunis for the Jeep's repairs after a collision that was totally not her fault.

Fortunately, she has her twin sister Pauline and the other misfit toys from the summer program, Team Misfit Toys. Together, they conquer obstacle courses, organize neighborhood vigils in honor of missing women, and ensure that summer doesn't end up feeling so lost.

But all changes when Perry goes to a conference at a nearby university and finds out about the "Warrior Girl," an ancestor whose bones and knives are kept in the museum archives. Warrior Girl has to be returned to her tribe by Perry. She is determined to assist, so she studies as much as she can about NAGPRA, the federal statute that permits tribes to ask for the repatriation of holy objects and ancestor remains. Perry and the Misfits will not allow the university to continue holding onto the bones of Warrior Girl and twelve other Anishinaabe ancestors via legal means.

The Misfits decide that a heist is the only option to permanently retrieve the stolen treasures and remains after using all of their abilities and resources. However, when more women vanish and Pauline's perfectionism worsens, there is more to this repatriation than first seems. Perry and the Misfits must battle to find a way to put things right for the ancestors and their community as secrets and mysteries come to light.

A riveting young adult mystery about a Native kid who has to figure out how to bring an ancestor back to her tribe comes from the New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter.