But things don't go as planned in the Arizona desert, because sweet Mikey just wants to be friends. After spending time in treatment with other young women like her-who cut, burn, poke, and otherwise hurt themselves-Charlie is released and takes a bus from the Twin Cities to Tucson to be closer to Mikey, a boy she "like-likes" but who had pined for Ellis instead. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street. Readers of historical fiction and adventure need look no further.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. Placing the stories in historical order allows readers to move smoothly through, and a helpful author’s note follows each selection. There is range and balance in tone, voice, and approach, a challenge for anthologies. The young women do heroic things, but there is little that is anachronistic. A few stories are based on actual people and events, but what each story does best is anchor the narrative securely in its time. The collection is enhanced by the unexpected, such as one from Kekla Magoon about the Black Panthers in a surprising setting. Another, more traditional story from that same time by Caroline Richmond finds a teen spy at odds with her own family.
Andrea Cremer offers a tale from the Civil War era that positions supernatural creatures on either side.
Some of the stories are historical fantasy, such as one about three Mexican sisters that places the Fates in post-annexation Texas, by Leslye Walton. Anderson Coats’ Joe, disguised as a boy on a pirate ship, or Marie Lu’s Yakone, mushing through the Alaskan wilderness however, primarily, it is their wits and daring that get them through. The stories present protagonists using physical skills such as J. This group of 15 original short stories, penned by a mix of authors both well-known and relatively new, places young women of racially diverse backgrounds at the centers of fictional narratives throughout American history.
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