Students are reporting strange, supernatural events going on around the school, and Willie soon begins to observe the same phenomena. However, it soon becomes clear that her difficulties as a teacher are the least of her worries. Taking the identity of a classmate, Angelina McClure, her journey takes her to the Cherokee Indian Seminary, where she poses as an English teacher for Native students. When she receives a letter from her mother asking her to come home and do her part in caring for the family, she makes the decision to run away. All she knows for sure is that she doesn’t want to return home to the family farm with her mother, stepfather, and siblings. She hopes to stay in school and continue her late father’s dream of an education for her. The story begins with Willie Hammond, a 17-year-old girl, unsure of what her next step in life is. Exploring themes of responsibility, the influence of one’s family, and race relations, The Revenant uses its historical setting to shine a light on a little-known period of American history and bring attention to the historic treatment of Native Americans.

As she struggles to adjust to her new role as an educator and keep up the ruse of her identity, supernatural forces begin to swirl around the school and she must try to figure out the cause of the ghost’s violent actions before it begins claiming innocent lives. Set in the American South and Midwest during the year of 1896, The Revenant focuses on a teenage girl who takes a job as a teacher in the Cherokee Indian Territory in Oklahoma under an assumed identity. The Revenant is a 2011 young-adult supernatural mystery novel, the debut work of YA author Sonia Gensler.

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