Description
Andrea L. Rogers is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and graduated with an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Man Made Monsters, Andrea's YA collection of horror stories, received six starred reviews and won the Walter Award; her YA novel The Art Thieves was named best of the year by the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Shelf Awareness, and American Indians in Children's Literature, among others. Chooch Helped, her picture book illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz, was awarded the Caldecott Medal. Andrea lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
It's 2052, and the world is running out of time—but Stevie Henry doesn't know that yet.
Stevie is just trying to save enough money for college before summer ends. That's how she ended up working at the gift shop in the art museum. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire. . .but people get by.
Then a new intern named Adam shows up. Charming, mysterious, and evasive about his past–he’s a perfect distraction. Except he claims he's traveled back from the year 2201 to save priceless art from an impending catastrophe.
Stevie doesn't believe him. Not at first.
When the signs Adam described start coming true—and the people she loves most are pulled into danger—she has to decide how far she'll go to protect her family when the future itself is warning her that nothing will be the same.
Blending time travel, climate fiction, and Indigenous futurism, The Art Thieves is a gripping, emotionally charged novel from Walter Award-winning author Andrea L. Rogers. This is a story about what we choose to hold onto (and fight for) when the world as we know it starts to unravel.
Audience: Ages 12-18.