by Cherie Dimaline

Recommended by Lorina Mapa
Just when you think you have nothing left to lose, they come for your dreams.
Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The Indigenous peoples in North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden – but what they don’t know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.
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About Lorina Mapa

Lorina Mapa was born and raised in Manila and in 1986 at the age of sixteen moved with her family to Washington DC. She graduated from the Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in New Jersey where she met her artist husband Daniel Shelton (creator of the popular comic strip “Ben”). In 2003, her father’s sudden death by car accident sparked a series of childhood memories which she wrote down and illustrated as a way of dealing with his passing.
These stories became “Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos and Me”, a graphic memoir about growing up in the Philippines in the 1980s. Weaving the past with the present, it explores and entertains with themes on religion, pop culture, adolescence, social class and politics, including Mapa’s experiences of the 1986 People Power Revolution which made headlines around the world. “Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos and Me” (“touching and joyous” – Publisher’s Weekly; “the emotion shines through on every page” – Booklist) has been featured on the CBC, Conde Nast Traveller and nominated by the American Library Association as a Great Graphic Novel for Teens. Lorina is a Best Writer nominee for the Joe Schuster Awards and was listed on the CBC International Women’s Day List of Writers to Watch.
She lives with her husband and four children in Hudson, Quebec.
About the Author
Cherie Dimaline

Cherie Dimaline, a member of the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario, has published 4 books. Her first book, Red Rooms, was published in 2007, and her novel The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy was released in 2013. In 2014, she was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and became the first Aboriginal Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Her book A Gentle Habit was published in August 2016.
Her 2017 book, The Marrow Thieves, which we are reading now, won the Governor General’s Award and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers, was a finalist for the White Pine Award, and was a selection for CBC’s 2018 Canada Reads. It was also named a Book of Year on numerous lists including the National Public Radio, the School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and the CBC, and continues to be a national bestseller and has been translated into several languages. Cherie is currently working on the TV adaptation of The Marrow Thieves, launching her next novel, Empire of Wild, with Random House in September 2019 (US release through William Morrow 2020), and is working on a new YA novel to be published in 2020.