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Darcie Little Badger

A Snake Falls to Earth Hardcover – Nov. 23 2021

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Newbery Honor Winner
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National Book Award Longlist
Minneapolis Star Tribune Best of the Year
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"A spellbinding tale."—Texas Monthly

"Genre-bending."—TIME

"Undeniably charming."—Tor.com

★ "Evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral storytelling."—Kirkus (starred)

★ "Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers."—Publishers Weekly (starred)

★ "Magical, stunning, and wholly original."—Booklist (starred)

"A highly descriptive story which absorbs the audience into its world, readers will become invested in reading until the very end."—School Library Connection

A Snake Falls to Earth is a breathtaking work of Indigenous futurism. Darcie Little Badger draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family. It is not to be missed.

Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.

Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake.

Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven't been in centuries.

And there are some who will kill to keep them apart.

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12 - 18 years
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352 pages
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English
Grade level

Preschool and up
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15.24 x 3.56 x 21.72 cm
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Levine Querido
Publication date

Nov. 23 2021
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1646140923
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978-1646140923
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"“Both authentic and original. Strong, subtle worldbuilding allows readers to immerse themselves in Nina’s near future world of increased climate change and advanced social media technology and in Oli’s magical world of spirits, monsters, and old stories come to life.” —The Hub (a YALSA Blog),

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"[STAR] “Evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral storytelling.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred),

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""Though the stakes are high, Little Badger takes time to explore the ways that other species and cultures move through space and time, and what is lost when those ways of seeing disappear. " — Minneapolis Star Tribune,

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"“Draws on her scientific training and tribal storytelling to weave a spellbinding tale.” — Texas Monthly,

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""Themes of magic, family, asexuality, and traditional storytelling dominate in Lipan Apache author Darcie Little Badger’s delightful and uplifting second YA novel. A Lipan girl named Nina collides with Oli who is from the land of spirits and monsters. But some people will do anything to keep them apart. This is a wholesome, elegantly written read guaranteed to warm your heart!" — Autostraddle,

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“If Elatsoe was a ten out of ten, then A Snake Falls to Earth is a solid 11. This book could have been twice as long and I still would have begged for more. Although aimed at a young-adult audience, it has the kind of easy appeal and heartfelt tone that will entice younger kids and older adults as well. Anyone reading or buying YA needs to add this to their shelves immediately.” — Locus

“This is a delightful and imaginative novel with alternating protagonists. One is Nina, a teenager trying to translate a story told by her great-great-grandmother in her native Athabaskan language, Lipan. The other is Oli, a cottonmouth snake with the ability to shapeshift, who is learning to find his way after being pushed from the nest. Climate change features, informed by the author’s geoscience degree and PhD in oceanography. Another theme is linguistic diversity and the crucial role of storytelling in keeping cultures alive. A Snake Falls to Earth is also very much a story of friendship.”—Five Books

"[STAR] “Fun, imaginative, and deeply immersive, this story will be long in the minds of readers.”— Publishers Weekly (starred),

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"[STAR] “Magical, stunning, and wholly original.”—Booklist (starred),

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"“A highly descriptive story with open dialogue which absorbs the audience into its world, readers will become invested in reading until the very end."—School Library Connection,

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"“Little Badger’s new genre-bending narrative draws on her heritage and the tradition of story-telling that has informed her worldview.”—TIME,

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""Her work is magical for all ages."—Den of Geek,

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"“Undeniably charming. There is no pretension in the writing, no forced attempts at being on trend, and yet it is completely relevant—whether it is that certain characters are asexual, or use the pronoun they, or the power of the internet, or whether it is the frightening, timely talk of rapid climate change and how it effects more lives than just those of humans, whether it is to remind us that our longevity as humans is intertwined with that of other species, and with that of the earth, or whether it is to remind us of what is most important, the one thing that may save us all—the power of stories, and community.”—Tor.com,

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About the Author

Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in TIME as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received the Newbery Honor, is an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Levine Querido (Nov. 23 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1646140923
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1646140923
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 708 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 3.56 x 21.72 cm

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Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy novels of all time. Darcie's short fiction, nonfiction and comics have appeared in multiple places, including Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices #1, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and The Dark.

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Absolutely incredible book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 15, 2022

Beautiful storytelling. Don't let the label of "YA fiction" fool you, it doesn't matter what your age is. It's a great book. I don't leave book reviews, I've read thousands of books and I've probably left 3 reviews ever, so seriously? It's worth the read. I promise.

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LA in Dallas

Apache spirits save the world, or at least a bit of Texas

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2022

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A Snake Falls to Earth caught my interest by beginning with a linguistic mystery. Nina Aroyo is one of the two principle protagonists of A Snake Falls to Earth. Her great^n-grandmother Rosita ("great^n" means I'm not exactly sure how many "greats" belong there) tells Nina a story told her by her (Rosita's) mother. Although Rosita and Nina are Lipan Apache, they don't share a common language. Rosita speaks Spanish and Nina English. Therefore Nina uses a translation app on her phone to understand the story. Well, most of the story shows up as gibberish on the app. It turns out that Rosita memorized the sound of the story, as told her in Lipan Apache, which the translation app doesn't understand. With the help of her mother Alicia, who happens to be a translator and linguist, Nina constructs a partial key based on Lipan and Jicarilla Apache and also Navajo, which (I did not know this) is a related language. Rosita's story is a story from Apache folklore.

Apache folklore as here depicted is peopled by animal spirits, who have "true forms", which are animals, and "false forms", which resemble humans. The second protagonist, Oli, is one of these: he's a cottonmouth snake. The spirits live in a world that is mostly separate from Earth but is linked to it. After some initial coming-of-age type adventures, Oli settles comfortably in the spirit world, where he makes friends of some of the other animals. One of his friends falls ill, and the healer tells him the problem is on Earth. Oli finds a way to travel to Earth, where he and Nina help each other out.

I enjoyed this introduction to Apache folklore, about which I knew almost nothing. (And therefore I can say nothing about how accurate a representation of that folklore it is.) It was also an entertaining story, probably well targeted for Middle Grades.

6 people found this helpful

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Old legends in a modern world

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 11, 2022

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I found the first half of this book interesting but slow to read. At about the 50 percent mark when the two worlds in the story begin to connect everything cam alive for me.

The little girl grown to a teenager is recording tales her great grandma told her.in a strange mixture of two American Indian tribal languages and Spanish. The Spanish is not so hard to figure out but there are no dictionaries for Lipan and the other tribal language but with much research she pieces together the story of animals with human forms. These creatures used to live on earth with regular humans. Something happened and now all the animals with human forms live in a pseudo earth but can travel back to earth for a short time.

With great surprise Nina, the girl, welcomes a snake human form named Oli, twin foxes and a hawk named Brightness. They have come to save an nearly extinct species of toad so their friend Eli a tiny dying toad can live.

Meanwhile a hurricane is bearing down and about to destroy Grandma's house and property where the toads used to live. Will this strange crew be able to save Grandma and her property and the toads of Texas?

A good read and makes you want to hear the continuing adventures of Oli, Risk and Reign the foxes and Brightness and the mockingbird who can shape shift into many different forms.

5 people found this helpful

Amy W.

Sweet

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 8, 2022

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This book somehow made a seamless transition from legend to real life story look easy and right as rain. I just loved the whole
trip. Kittens, wolves, snakes, frogs, catfish, coyotes, and people all learned to get along; wish the wider world could follow their lead.
This is a lovely second book by an American writer who redefines American to include Apache culture, just as it should. It's a pleasure to read and even an action epic (roping a tornado, lol), so I'm glad my library sponsored it as a read together book.

3 people found this helpful

crr

Another wonderful story from Darcie Little Badger

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2022

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A sad, sweet and uplifting story.I am so happy to have found Darcie Little Badger. It is marketed as YA, but I am a 66 yr old woman and I loved it.

Looking forward to what comes next!

8 people found this helpful

DRDee

creativity embodied (pun intended)!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2022

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Giving no spoilers, I can say that the storyline and characters are interwoven with a tapestry of Native American folklore. The author accomplishes this with skill and an easy grace that allows any and all to enjoy the journey.
Definitely suitable for readers 11 and older, with no subjects or scenes that should be of concern to a parent. It would be a great story to share with a younger reader (upper elementary or older).

2 people found this helpful

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