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SISTERS OF THE NEVERSEA
In this modern take of the popular classic Peter Pan, award-winning author Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Creek) brilliantly shifts the focus from the boy who won't grow up to Native American Lily and English Wendy - stepsisters who must face both dangers and wonders to find their way back to the family they love.
Lily and Wendy are best friends, and they both adore their younger half-brother Michael. But their parents are contemplating divorce, and as a result the girls have been fighting more and feeling distant from each other. When a magical boy named Peter and his exasperated fairy sidekick Belle appear in their bedroom one night, offering to take them to Neverland, Wendy and Michael jump at the chance - leaving the more skeptical Lily to find her own way there and bring her siblings back.
It turns out that Neverland is full of kidnapped children. Peter is cruel and selfish towards all of them, and Wendy realizes her mistake. Then she finds a group of other Native kids exiled by Peter. Maybe - with their help, and a little bit of fairy dust - the sisters can find their way back to each other, and help all the kids find their way home.
Like Lily, the author is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. As a child she loved the story of Neverland and Tinker Bell, but she was upset by the unrealistic depictions of Native characters in the original Peter Pan stories, films, and stage adaptations. We're pleased to represent this much-needed #OwnVoices update to a beloved, yet troubling, classic.
Lily and Wendy are best friends, and they both adore their younger half-brother Michael. But their parents are contemplating divorce, and as a result the girls have been fighting more and feeling distant from each other. When a magical boy named Peter and his exasperated fairy sidekick Belle appear in their bedroom one night, offering to take them to Neverland, Wendy and Michael jump at the chance - leaving the more skeptical Lily to find her own way there and bring her siblings back.
It turns out that Neverland is full of kidnapped children. Peter is cruel and selfish towards all of them, and Wendy realizes her mistake. Then she finds a group of other Native kids exiled by Peter. Maybe - with their help, and a little bit of fairy dust - the sisters can find their way back to each other, and help all the kids find their way home.
Like Lily, the author is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. As a child she loved the story of Neverland and Tinker Bell, but she was upset by the unrealistic depictions of Native characters in the original Peter Pan stories, films, and stage adaptations. We're pleased to represent this much-needed #OwnVoices update to a beloved, yet troubling, classic.
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Published 2021-06-01 by HarperCollins |