If you loved how Nina’s family tales and Oli’s spirit-world journey intermingle—especially the way traditional stories quietly become literal during the storm—Elatsoe hits the same sweet spot. Ellie (a Lipan Apache teen) can summon the ghost of her dog and navigates a mystery that pulls old stories into the present. Like when Nina pieces through her great-great-grandmother’s tale to understand what’s happening, Ellie leans on family history and community wisdom to confront dangers hiding in plain sight.

You enjoyed how the ordinary Texas setting is only a step away from Oli’s spirit-land and how a family’s past guides the present. In Black Water Sister, Jess moves back to Penang and finds her late grandmother’s ghost speaking through her—dragging her into feuds among deities and mortals. That same hush-between-worlds you felt when Nina’s research and Oli’s realm suddenly connect is here, grounded in family secrets, wry humor, and tense negotiations with very real spirits.

In A Snake Falls to Earth, a looming hurricane puts Nina’s family and community at risk, and story-knowledge becomes survival. The Last Cuentista turns that feeling cosmic: after a catastrophe forces humanity into space, Petra alone remembers Earth and must use the power of cuentos to protect the children around her. If you were moved by how Nina’s inherited tales and Oli’s world help avert tragedy, you’ll love watching Petra wield story to preserve culture, memory, and hope when everything is on the line.

If the quiet, personal stakes of Nina and Oli—two people trying to help a friend and a family as a storm gathers—were what hooked you, A Psalm for the Wild-Built offers that same intimate warmth. A tea monk and a curious robot wander through forests and small towns, sharing conversations that echo the tender, human (and more-than-human) connections you felt when the two worlds in Texas finally touched. It’s cozy, thoughtful, and suffused with the same hope that carried Nina’s family through the crisis.

If you connected with Nina’s Lipan Apache roots, the bilingual texture of her research, and how family history guides the rescue at the heart of the story, The Summer of the Mariposas will resonate. Five sisters journey from Texas into Mexico, guided by folkloric figures and ancestral wisdom, to set things right. That same celebration of culture and kin—the force that lets Nina bridge worlds and that draws Oli toward compassion—drives this luminous, myth-touched road adventure.