Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

De: David Grann

Narrado por: Kyla Garcia, Jon Lindstrom, Joe Ochman

A young reader edition of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist about one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes, the Reign of Terror against the Osage people.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off.

As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization's first major homicide investigations. An undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau, infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection to bring an end to the deadly crime spree. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

In this youngification of the adult bestseller, critically acclaimed author David Grann revisits the gripping investigation into the shocking crimes against the Osage people. It is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to continue for so long and provides essential information for young readers about a shameful period in U.S. history.

Reseñas de la Crítica

★ "An eye-opening, challenging, and thoroughly sourced saga that will open the door to many necessary conversations." —Booklist, starred review

★ "A young readers treatment that is just as imperative and enthralling as its parent text."—School Library Journal, starred review

★ "There is no shortage of jaw-dropping information in Killers of the Flower Moon. Grann entices younger readers with a mystery worthy of fiction and grips them with a thriller."—Shelf Awareness, starred review

"This compelling page-turner highlights criminal exploitation of Osage people and the work of the modern FBI." —Kirkus Reviews

Heartbreaking and Real

This book is an important read for anyone who lives in the US. The narrator changed halfway through and that was weird.

Outstanding

A marvelous, telling of a cruel story. This is a story that everyone should hear. Excellent!

very good book

very well told book we'll ridden audio biography, good to listen to, narrative was good.

the injustice to natives that still goes on!

well written the narrative was great! you could almost feel the caracters come alive! Etter than the movie!

Must read

There is so much important host in this book. It is a must read for everyone that wants the truth on how this country was built. It’s so important to know our true history so we can prevent the ugly from happening again. This is a must read!!

True Oklahoma History

Sad. Awesome to have the story brought to light. The level of evil that people are willing to go to in this world is astounding.

makes you mad

Native Americans have been treated poorly since the beginning, it hasn't changed. Most people think it has changed but it hasn't. When I was a Senior in High School we were told any minority wanting to sign up for a scholarship to go to a certain class room I went there was 5 black kids me and Mexican kids the teacher spoke Spanish the entire time then dismissed all of us, I didn't get a scholarship and neither did the the black kids that was in 1970. The books says how bad things are and its just the icing on the cake. They are still being taken advantage of. Burial lands dug up. The Smithsonian has hundreds of Native American bones that have been taken over the years and never returned to tribal burial sites. How would you like it if your mom was dug up and never returned to where you buried her and without your permission as was done so many years ago. Now they have to call a Native Shaman if bones are suspected and if it's reported. If it's a major building site the bones will be removed. How would you feel about your family being dug up and relocated and hopefully intact and without being their to say goodbye again?

Raw History

Amazing look into the real raw reality of American History. The truth reviled. Justice

Greed creates monsters

The narrators did a great job in this version. The account is carefully done - the factual information [names, dates and places] set forth in the early chapters underpin the grim truth in the later chapters of how greed and vulnerability creates predatory monsters. Let us rise above and break the cycle.

Excellent job bringing this to light

I’ve never read or been taught of the Osage murders but why would American Historians want to shed anything but glamor on this country. I’m part Cherokee and white and I’m ashamed of what my ancestors did.