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If you are looking for a historical young adult novel for your reading enjoyment, you might want to check out Heron's Path, by Alethea Eason, published May, 2012, is an engaging story about two sisters, Katy and Celeste, growing up in a world that is very intermingled with a fictitious Native American tribe called the Nanchuti in approximately late 1800's. The Nanchuti seem so real that one is inclined to google them during the reading, which I did. I found out there was no such tribe, but in the afterward you can learn about the tribe that they are based on, the Karuk in Northern California. This book had me intrigued with the ways and history of the Karuk, and the enchanting world of Northern California more than a century ago. The poignant story of the sisters had me turning the pages to find out what happened. The strange connection that Celeste had to the Nanchuti kept me interested to the end.