Welcome Readers!
This month the Online Reading Challenge travels to the 2000s to the present (that’s a large time period which means lots of books to choose from!). Our main title for September is Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley. Here’s a quick summary from the publisher:
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team.
Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug.
Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims.
Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known. – Henry Holt and Co. Books for Young Readers
Looking for some other books set in the 2000s to the present? Try any of the following.
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Home Front by Kristin Hannah
- Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
- The Summer of Lost and Found by Mary Alice Monroe
- Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
- Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!