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Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world’s best frybread. The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread...

Auf einer Lichtung, auf der vor Jahrhunderten Druiden finsteren Göttern ihr Blutopfer darbrachten, möchte der junge Kirk Dugan sein "Drive-In"-Kino zu Halloween eröffnen. Ein Vorhaben, das bei den Alten im nahegelegenen Ort nicht gerade auf Gegenliebe stößt. Doch Kirk und seine Freunde schlagen alle Warnungen trotz einiger unheimlicher Vorzeichen in den Wind. Und so nimmt das Verhängnis seinen Lauf.

Laila Finnerty, has just been offered the opportunity of a lifetime – a year-long work experience placement with F1s most prolific reporter, Sam Morgan. It’s the chance of a lifetime and Laila is determined to impress. But during the first race in Bahrain, a fatal crash plunges Laila straight into the action. Rumours start to circulate that there is sabotage at play, and when Laila’s friend takes the injured driver’s place, Laila makes it her mission to uncover the truth before her apprenticeship ends.

The drive-in is dying. People can blame the demise on cable television, luxury theaters with sound systems so technical NASA engineers are needed to install them, or on a host of other modern conveniences and distractions. In reality, the drive-in operator of the Sulpher Springs Big-Screen Drive-In Theater hired a young Donald Davis to work his high school summers there.

Teen socialite Rian Callusa knows her privileged New York life is over as they drive down a backwoods road toward her new home. But instead of pulling up to a dusty shack, her jaw drops when her Mom parks in front of a stylish mansion. Maybe she doesn't know as much about her Mom as she thought.

When Rob and Gabi skip school with two friends, the group makes a terrible mistake. Rob and his friends end up in a deadly accident, and suddenly Rob's world has changed. The girl of his dreams is even blaming him for what happened. Will Rob be able to deal with the pain?

Summer vacation has begun, and Malachi, Elizajane, Noah, and Elias are bored out of their minds. Playing pig pile doesn’t help. Neither does banging one’s face on the grass. What to do, what to do? The kids decide to go downtown to see what they can see. They wander past the old drugstore, where Elizajane remembers something about sodas and It’s a Wonderful Life. In a heartbeat she is gone, bolting around the corner to the back of the old building, where she finds a way inside.