"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population--and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow--and dreams--means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...

2) Hunting by stars

Author

Dimaline, Cherie

Series

The marrow thieves volume 2
Marrow Thieves Novel

Publisher

Amulet Books

Pub. Date

2021

Language

English

Appears on these lists

Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month
Indigenous Peoples' Day: Titles for Teens
Native American Heritage
Native American Heritage Month (teens)

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French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...