(2) YA Since her death in a car accident, Beth Teller's police officer father is the only one still able to see her, which seems only to intensify his grief. In an attempt to snap him back to his normal self, Beth pushes him to investigate possible arson in a small Australian town. This well-crafted novel, featuring two Australian Aboriginal voices, is a welcome #OwnVoices offering and a compelling mix of supernatural elements and Aboriginal history.

Reviewer: Anastasia M. Collins | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2019

(2) YA Tribe series. In this final volume of Kwaymullina's "Indigenous futurism" trilogy, it seems the repressive government will finally dissolve the punitive restrictions on those with supernatural abilities. However, powerful Neville Rose's insidious influence causes damage. Action dominates the story, but Kwaymullina develops the imagery and relationships of earlier volumes to undergird all with a web of loyalty, compassion, and commitment to "connection" between beings.

Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2017

(2) YA Tribe series. Ashala (The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf) and her group of supernaturally gifted young runaways search for missing member Ember Crow. Ash's Tribe works to dissolve divisions in their post-environmental-cataclysm society. Ember reveals herself to be an entirely new kind of being. This action-filled novel--described in an author's note as Indigenous futurism--speaks to technological and ecological concerns with a vigorous futuristic imagination.

Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2016

(2) YA Ashala Wolf is head of the Tribe, a group of refugees deemed Illegals because of their supernatural abilities. (Ashala can Sleepwalk to make her dreams come true.) She's incarcerated by an evil megalomaniac with a computer that steals memories. Admirable heroine Ashala narrates with an earnest adolescent voice--not quirky or vivid, but responsible, loyal, and wholesome. This futuristic fantasy offers a thought-provoking situation.

Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2014