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If
you want a hefty fantasy novel, I would
recommend The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi
Heilig. This time-travel fantasy imagines a girl who
travels around the world across centuries looking for a
map that might alter her future. It is the first
book in a duology, which introduces 16-year-old Nix, a
girl who has traveled around the world through centuries
aboard her father's time-traveling ship.
Nix
was born in Hawaii in 1868; when her mother dies in
childbirth, her roguish opium addicted father sets sail
with her. He can sail anywhere in time that he wants, as
long as he has a map; but now he is seeking a map to
take him back to 1868 so that he can change the past and
resurrect his wife. The question is, what will that do
to Nix's future, in fact her entire existence? Along
with her Persian thief love interest, Kash, who has been
sailing with them for two years, Nix struggles to keep
her father from acquiring the map that could lead to her
demise.
This
skillful mashup of science fiction, Hawaiian history,
and mythology is filled with swashbuckling adventure,
making it a real page turner. The sequel The Ship
Beyond Time is expected February 28, 2017.
(Booktalk by Sharon
Nehls.http://www.coloradobluespruceaward.org/)
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