![]() ![]() The trio also receives help from Diyin Dine’é (Diné Holy People). ![]() The heroes, for example, meet Na’ashjéii Asdzáá (Spider Women), the four guardians of the sacred mountains, as well as Jóhonaa’éí (the Sun) who provide guidance, food, humour, lessons, and weapons. Many people from Diné stories make their appearance throughout the novel. Nizhoni, her brother Mac, and best friend Davery set out on their quest to save her kidnapped dad, the Diné, and their lands. After a failed attempt to kill Nizhoni, Charles kidnaps the father. These powers lead her to realize that a man named Charles who has offered her father a job in Oklahoma is a monster. Nizhoni’s powers give her the ability to detect and fight monsters threatening her family, the Navajo, and the Earth. Race to the Sun follows Nizhoni Begay as she learns about her family’s direct descent from the Hero Twins and her own powers. It presents the monsters, who traditionally are destroyers of the land and people, as those seeking to befoul the Earth through fracking. ![]() Roanhorse’s novel is drawn from Navajo stories about the Hero Twins while set in the contemporary Southwest, the lands of the Navajo or Diné. The novel is part of the Rick Riordan Presents series for young readers that showcases authors from “underrepresented cultures and backgrounds” who are telling stories inspired by their cultures. ![]() Race to the Sun is an exciting fantasy novel inspired by Indigenous legends for young readers by Indigenous novelist Rebecca Roanhorse. ![]()
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