{"product_id":"the-art-thieves","title":"The Art Thieves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rogers, Andrea L.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Lantern Paperbacks, 2026-10-13\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNnedi Okorafor meets Angeline Boulley in this gripping story of hope (and time travel!) amid climate collapse\n\nBEST OF THE YEAR: Shelf Awareness * Cooperative Children's Book Center\n\nTO: Angel Wilson (LawAngel@IBLO.gov)\n\nFROM: Stevie Henry (shenry@gmail.com)\n\nThanks for coming to see me; but by the time you read this, it will be too late. No one will have started to panic, yet; but in less than two months nothing will be the same. What came first, The Chicken or the Egg Flu? I wish it mattered. But let’s just say, maybe go back to wearing a mask, bathing in sanitizer, and avoid birds and eggs for a bit…\n\nI did not kill my brother. I did quite the opposite, really.\n\nIt’s the year 2052. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire … but people get by. But it’s about to get a whole lot worse.\n\nWhen a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie’s museum saying that he’s from the future -- and telling her what is to come -- she refuses to believe him. But soon she will have no choice.\n\nFrom the author of the Walter Award-winning Man Made Monsters comes a YA novel that conjures our futures in startling life – the ones that we are headed towards, and the ones we can still work towards.\n\nP R A I S E\n\n\"The Art Thieves is a book that is both exciting to read and deeply thoughtful about our reality as well as the larger literary landscape of post-apocalyptic fiction. I couldn’t put it down, and as soon as I finished reading, I wanted to find something else like it. I even found myself hoping that Rogers might be working on a series. The Art Thieves is reminiscent of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and is in conversation with Afrofuturism more broadly.\"\n―Southern Review of Books\n\n★ “Rogers employs smart and empathetic prose to present a realistically rendered science fiction tale that is at once adrenaline-pumping and emotionally moving. In this gripping adventure, Rogers considers the future of Indigenous heritage via an indomitable protagonist who, alongside a plethora of memorably realized characters, navigates tough issues relating to death, familial turmoil, exploitation, and climate collapse.”\n―Publishers Weekly (starred)\n\n★ “A stirring story about choosing to create a new future when disaster seems inevitable Rogers's sophomore YA novel skillfully discusses the current affairs, pop culture, and climate-change related extreme weather events of the future and powerfully relates them to historical and contemporary legacies of racism and oppression.... Award-winning author Andrea L. Rogers paints a stunning picture of what it means to hope for a better future and the strength it might take to make that future real.”\n―Shelf-Awareness (starred)\n\n“Sharp social commentary folded into an all-too-believable dystopian setting.”\n―Kirkus\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50534766117033,"sku":"PHBK-9781646147526","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/2293803482774.jpg?v=1791651228","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/the-art-thieves","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}