Stone and Silt

Living in 1860s gold rush British Columbia isn't easy for Nikaia, daughter of a native mother and a white father. But things get even more difficult when Nikaia's carelessness causes her father to become a murder suspect. With her sister Klima, and the quiet neighbor boy Yee Sim, Nikaia races to find clues to the crime. But with the dead man's brother out for revenge, and the judge arriving on the next sternwheeler, Nikaia has little time to clear her father's name. 190 pages, 4.7-star rating, all ages.