Animal people can shift between their true and false (humanoid) forms and are able to visit Earth Nina’s and Oli’s lives intertwine when he and his friends travel to Texas seeking help after learning that Ami is dying because the earthly population of his toad species faces extinction due to human environmental destruction. In the Reflecting World, innocent Oli, a cottonmouth snake person, reluctantly leaves home, settling down and befriending ancient toad Ami, two coyote sisters, and a hawk. Nina uploads her musings about her family’s stories to the St0ryte11er video platform. Using dictionaries to painstakingly make sense of the garbled transcription app results, Nina uncovers a mysterious story about Rosita’s sighting of a fish girl in her well, long after the joined era when animal people still lived on Earth.
When Nina was 9, her Great-Great-Grandmother Rosita told her a story in Spanish and Lipan Apache. (Oct.A 16-year-old Lipan Apache girl from Texas and a cottonmouth person from the spirit world connect when both need help. Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers. But when Ami grows ill, Oli knows the cure is on Earth-where he meets and helps Nina with her own problems. 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. 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. 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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