Stevie loves to look at The Ladder, whenever their shift allows, they are in the room it calls home, drawing it. Stevie’s little brother Levi is her whole world, alongside her parents, best friends Jess and Loren, and her aunties. But when Adam join the museum as an artist intern, Stevie’s world expands, even as it collapses.

Set in a future impacted by ecological collapse, pandemics, and war, The Art Thieves is heavily inspired by the Afrofuturism movement. Andrea Rogers adapts the movement for her own Cherokee culture with great success. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Afrofuturism, sci-fi stories, and stories of climate change.

Content warning for sexual assault and pedophilia.

Let me start by saying this isn't the kind of story I normally gravitate to, but I am a huge fan of Man Made Monsters, so I had to read this one.
Once I started this book, however, I was immediately hooked. There's just something about Andrea Rodgers' writing that just keeps you reading.
So if book about the apocalypse, time travel, and environmentalism are you're thing I highly recommend this book.

I love anything art related so I was intrigued by the title. It was a cute YA that I would recommend to any age