Young adult dystopian science fiction

The Marrow Thieves

by Cherie Dimaline

In a climate-ravaged future, most people have lost the ability to dream, while Indigenous people are hunted because their bone marrow may hold a cure. After Recruiters take his family, Métis teenager Frenchie joins a group of Indigenous survivors traveling north under Miigwans's leadership. Their stories, language, and chosen-family bonds preserve identity as surely as their survival skills, even while government schools revive the horrors of colonial violence. Urgent and lyrical, this young-adult dystopia suits readers prepared for loss and medical abuse who value Indigenous perspectives, found family, environmental warning, resistance, and hope rooted in culture and community.