This was an amazing book. If you love the history of the Indigenous people of America this is a book you won’t be able to put down. It is a murder mystery inside historical facts. It also explains how the FBI began. Set in the 1920’s the book follows the lives of various Osage Indians in Oklahoma who were very wealthy because of the oil rights of their land. This is a must read. It will help you see how wrong we were to treat indigenous people with no respect!

Her famous painting has thorns around her neck. She died young and her house now has all her pictures for people to see, and she painted when she had a pain in her back.

Just as it appears that our protagonist and her would be devour-er reach an understanding the situation is further complicated by the revelation that one of their classmates is a protective deity determined to protect out of guilt for letting the tragedy that took her whole family. The whole affair is presented gothic soap opera reminiscent of Dark Shadows. While you never forget that the story is set in japan; it has a real sense of place, and the mythology is ever present, but it could easily be adapted to be set anywhere coastal with a rich folklore to draw from. The translation seems clean and efficient and the delicate lifework of the art is beautiful , even when the subject mater is horrific.

A fun and quick read about taking life less seriously. The audiobook was great as it was read by the authors.

Excellent. Discovered Mitch Albom this year and am thorougly enjoying each book I have read by him

I like diamond because she is sweet and nice, but even though she is old, doesn’t mean that she shouldn’t get treated different. I also noticed that none of the other girls wanted to ride diamond so Ava decided to ride her and they won the championship??????????

What to do, where to go, what to see in Nantucket. Excellent guide

I like the dark because she never gives up and even though you feel like you can’t do something you always need to try and try and try again and that’s why I like Vashti and that’s also why I like the book

I recommended this book to a friend, Barbara Jackson.

What a heartwarming, poignant story about teenage girl issues. Such realistic and valuable role modeling!