Angeline Boulley will release her third young adult novel later this year, People magazine reports.
Henry Holt will publish Boulley’s Sisters in the Wind in the fall. The press describes the book as “a daring new mystery about a foster teen claiming her heritage on her own terms.”
Boulley made her literary debut in 2021 with Firekeeper’s Daughter, a novel about an 18-year-old Ojibwe woman who goes undercover to root out the source of a dangerous new drug that is killing people in her community. The novel was a huge success, hitting the New York Times bestseller list and winning the Michael L. Printz Award and the Walter Dean Myers Award. It is being adapted into a Netflix television series, produced by Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company.
In 2023, she published a follow-up novel, Warrior Girl Unearthed. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus praised the book as “a page-turning heist grounded in a nuanced exploration of critical issues of cultural integrity.”
Sisters in the Wind will follow a teenager in the foster system who is approached by a man claiming to know the secrets of her biological family.
The book, Boulley told People, “delves into an aspect of Native identity mentioned briefly in my previous novels: a young woman who learns about her Ojibwe identity while struggling to survive the foster care system.”
Sisters in the Wind is slated for publication on Sept. 2.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
