Cherie Dimaline

Books by This Author

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

Funeral Song for Dying Girls
Age Level: Young Adult

Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack. Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours has started a rumor that Winterson Cemetery might be haunted.

Hunting by Stars (A Marrow Thieves Novel)

Hunting by Stars (A Marrow Thieves Novel)
Age Level: Young Adult

Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones. Soon, residential schools pop up — or are re-opened — across the land to bring in the dreamers and harvest their dreams.

The Marrow Thieves

The Marrow Thieves:
Age Level: Young Adult

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow, and dreams, means death for the unwilling donors.