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Independent Press Award 

2025 Distinguished Favorite

Robert Saxton

Shades of a Warrior

Ninth-grader BJ Maki knows there is an evil presence on a killing spree in the hills above his Lake Superior home. And, thanks to strange messages he has been receiving, he knows that the Red Hand Warrior can help protect his family and community. But what he doesn't know—until he climbs out of a mysterious cave—is that the warrior he is supposed to find lives five hundred years in the past.

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