Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, 2025
Sheine Lende
Darcie Little Badger (opens in a new tab)
In the 1970s, the girl who will be Elatsoe's grandmother goes looking for her own mother, a finder of missing people who has gone missing herself.
Also on the ballot
- The Maid and the CrocodileJordan IfuekoAmuletRunner-up
- Heavenly TyrantXiran Jay ZhaoTundra Books
- So Let Them BurnKamilah ColeLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers
- The Feast MakersH.A. ClarkeErewhon
- MoonstormYoon Ha LeeDelacorte Press