{"id":327,"date":"2011-05-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2022-09-01T17:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T22:38:35","slug":"tricksters-girl-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Trickster’s Girl, by Hilari Bell (book review) – nanotech, ley lines, unbalanced Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ley lines<\/a> and legendary figures from Native American\/First Peoples mythology.
\nBioplague and a Gaia\/Earth that can no longer heal itself.
\nOur potential future, Kelsa’s world, so much at stake.<\/p>\n

Read this first book in the Raven Duet outside, under a real, living tree.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Trickster’s Girl \/ Hilari Bell. Clarion\/ Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011. 268 pg [author’s site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Recommendation<\/strong>: As Kelsa is burying Dad\u2019s ashes in the scrap of forest left near the city, a young man with no ID chip approaches her, wondering why she doesn\u2019t believe in magic. Ha! Her father just died of cancer, that curable everyday problem, worrying about the bioplague dropped by terrorists in the Amazon rainforest, the antidote that didn\u2019t work, the deforestation of whole countries that followed. Magic in a world of aircars and compods and microchefs?<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t hocus-pocus magic, Kelsa finds out, as Raven transforms himself into a fish, a bird, right before her eyes. He describes how humankind\u2019s demands have blocked the ley lines of spirit, keeping the earth from healing itself. Now forests can\u2019t fight off the bioplague and humans can\u2019t fight off curable cancers and worse natural disasters loom ahead.<\/p>\n

Kelsa has a flicker of magic in her soul, and Raven needs her help to unblock key nexus points on the ley lines from Utah to Alaska with a Native American artifact. But first they have to rob a museum to get it, then slip away from the police without worrying her mother.<\/p>\n

Surviving in the wilderness as her dad taught her, escaping from agents of spirits who\u2019d rather erase humanity and start earth anew, riding bikes and motorcycles over mountain trails toward nexus points, crossing boundaries without passports\u2026
\nCan Kelsa really help the earth heal itself?
\nIs Raven the Trickster telling her the whole truth?<\/p>\n

This is the first book of Bell’s new series based in a high-tech, high-security future United States whose only hope is the magic recounted in ancient folklore. (one of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandhug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ley lines and legendary figures from Native American\/First Peoples mythology. Bioplague and a Gaia\/Earth that can no longer heal itself. Our potential future, Kelsa’s world, so much at stake. Read this first book in the Raven Duet outside, under a real, living tree. **kmm Book info: Trickster’s Girl \/ Hilari Bell. Clarion\/ Houghton Mifflin Books […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,68,30,41],"tags":[90,22,7,4,92,20,5,37,16,18,43,114,49,63,85,15,21,66,35,33,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-future","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-canada","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-illness","tag-memories","tag-native-americans","tag-nature","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13169,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/13169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}