A snake falls to Earth /
Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-
A snake falls to Earth / Darcie Little Badger. - 372 pages ; 22 cm.
"This is an Arthur A. Levine book"--Title page verso.
Nina, age 9 -- Cottonmouth is cast from home -- Nina, age 13 -- Cottonmouth is hunted by a monster -- Nina, age 13 -- Cottonmouth meets the Coyote Sisters -- Nina, age 14 -- Cottonmouth meets Cooper's hawk and a sinister stranger -- Nina, age 15 -- Cottonmouth meets a bounty hunter -- Cottonmouth reaches a fork in the road -- Nina, age 16 -- Cottonmouth challenges death -- Nina, age 16 -- Cottonmouth meets the scribes -- Nina, age 16 -- Cottonmouth hatches a plan -- Nina, 3 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth journeys to the fourth peak -- Nina, 3 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth meets an originator -- Cottonmouth falls to earth -- Nina, 3 days before landfall -- Nina, 2 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth stars in an action movie -- Nina, 2 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth confronts an impostor -- Nina, 2 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth remembers flowers -- Nina, shortly before landfall -- Cottonmouth, Hawk, and they Coyote Sisters fight the wind -- Nina, Cottonmouth, and Coyote fight a tornado -- Cottonmouth returns -- Nina, shortly before landfall -- Cottonmouth's heart breaks -- Nina defies the nightmare -- The knight flies away -- Two weeks later -- One year later.
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families.
Ages: 12-18. Grades: 7-12.
National Book Awards Longlist for Young People's Literature Award, 2021. Newbery Honor Book, 2022.
1646140923 9781646140923
99990923325
2021931960
Agkistrodon piscivorus--Fiction.
Animals--Fiction.
Apache girls--Juvenile fiction.
Apache Indians--Fiction.
Apache mythology--Juvenile fiction.
Climatic changes--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Folklore--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Legends--Fiction.
Lipan Indians--Fiction.
Magic--Juvenile fiction.
Pit vipers--Fiction.
Shapeshifting--Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Lipan Indians--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Snakes--Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
PZ7.1 .L57838 / Sn 2021
[Fic] 813/.6
A snake falls to Earth / Darcie Little Badger. - 372 pages ; 22 cm.
"This is an Arthur A. Levine book"--Title page verso.
Nina, age 9 -- Cottonmouth is cast from home -- Nina, age 13 -- Cottonmouth is hunted by a monster -- Nina, age 13 -- Cottonmouth meets the Coyote Sisters -- Nina, age 14 -- Cottonmouth meets Cooper's hawk and a sinister stranger -- Nina, age 15 -- Cottonmouth meets a bounty hunter -- Cottonmouth reaches a fork in the road -- Nina, age 16 -- Cottonmouth challenges death -- Nina, age 16 -- Cottonmouth meets the scribes -- Nina, age 16 -- Cottonmouth hatches a plan -- Nina, 3 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth journeys to the fourth peak -- Nina, 3 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth meets an originator -- Cottonmouth falls to earth -- Nina, 3 days before landfall -- Nina, 2 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth stars in an action movie -- Nina, 2 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth confronts an impostor -- Nina, 2 days before landfall -- Cottonmouth remembers flowers -- Nina, shortly before landfall -- Cottonmouth, Hawk, and they Coyote Sisters fight the wind -- Nina, Cottonmouth, and Coyote fight a tornado -- Cottonmouth returns -- Nina, shortly before landfall -- Cottonmouth's heart breaks -- Nina defies the nightmare -- The knight flies away -- Two weeks later -- One year later.
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families.
Ages: 12-18. Grades: 7-12.
National Book Awards Longlist for Young People's Literature Award, 2021. Newbery Honor Book, 2022.
1646140923 9781646140923
99990923325
2021931960
Agkistrodon piscivorus--Fiction.
Animals--Fiction.
Apache girls--Juvenile fiction.
Apache Indians--Fiction.
Apache mythology--Juvenile fiction.
Climatic changes--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Folklore--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Legends--Fiction.
Lipan Indians--Fiction.
Magic--Juvenile fiction.
Pit vipers--Fiction.
Shapeshifting--Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Lipan Indians--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Snakes--Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
PZ7.1 .L57838 / Sn 2021
[Fic] 813/.6