{"product_id":"art-thieves","title":"The Art Thieves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePurchase this book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 10px 20px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0; background-color: #c41e3a; color: white; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/art-thieves-andrea-l-rogers\/19383058?ean=9781646143788\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 10px 20px; margin: 5px; background-color: #00703c; color: white; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/art-thieves-andrea-l-rogers\/1143893344?ean=9781646143788\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 10px 20px; margin: 5px; background-color: #ff9900; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Thieves-Andrea-L-Rogers\/dp\/1646143787\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAmazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNnedi Okorafor meets Angeline Boulley in this gripping story of hope (and time travel!) amid climate collapse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBEST OF THE YEAR: Shelf Awareness * Cooperative Children's Book Center \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTO: Angel Wilson (LawAngel@IBLO.gov)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFROM: Stevie Henry (shenry@gmail.com)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThanks for coming to see me; but by the time you read this, it will be too late. No one will have started to panic, yet; but in less than two months nothing will be the same. What came first, The Chicken or the Egg Flu? I wish it mattered. But let’s just say, maybe go back to wearing a mask, bathing in sanitizer, and avoid birds and eggs for a bit…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eI did not kill my brother. I did quite the opposite, really.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s the year 2052. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire … but people get by. But it’s about to get a whole lot worse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie’s museum saying that he’s from the future -- and telling her what is to come -- she refuses to believe him. But soon she will have no choice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the Walter Award-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMan Made Monsters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e comes a YA novel that conjures our futures in startling life – the ones that we are headed towards, and the ones we can still work towards. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eP R A I S E \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Art Thieves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a book that is both exciting to read and deeply thoughtful about our reality as well as the larger literary landscape of post-apocalyptic fiction. I couldn’t put it down, and as soon as I finished reading, I wanted to find something else like it. I even found myself hoping that Rogers might be working on a series. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Art Thieves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is reminiscent of Octavia Butler’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and is in conversation with Afrofuturism more broadly.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e― Southern Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★ “Rogers employs smart and empathetic prose to present a realistically rendered science fiction tale that is at once adrenaline-pumping and emotionally moving. In this gripping adventure, Rogers considers the future of Indigenous heritage via an indomitable protagonist who, alongside a plethora of memorably realized characters, navigates tough issues relating to death, familial turmoil, exploitation, and climate collapse.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(starred)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★ “A stirring story about choosing to create a new future when disaster seems inevitable Rogers's sophomore YA novel skillfully discusses the current affairs, pop culture, and climate-change related extreme weather events of the future and powerfully relates them to historical and contemporary legacies of racism and oppression.... Award-winning author Andrea L. Rogers paints a stunning picture of what it means to hope for a better future and the strength it might take to make that future real.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eShelf-Awareness\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e(starred) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sharp social commentary folded into an all-too-believable dystopian setting.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Levine Querido","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58397009707089,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/5091\/3873\/files\/716tmuhFKgL._SL1500.jpg?v=1764187697","url":"https:\/\/www.levinequerido.com\/products\/art-thieves","provider":"Levine Querido","version":"1.0","type":"link"}