The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

Each map can only be used for Navigation once – and one can never Navigate to a place and time where one has already existed. There are some rules to the time and space traveling.

All of these voyages have only ever had one goal: Captain Slade wants to get back to Honolulu in 1868 in order to save Nix’s mother – and possibly cause Nix to no longer exist in the process. In her life, Nix has been to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. Because of Captain Slade’s knowledge of the magical art of Navigation, he can go to any place, any time, just as long as he has a hand-drawn map of where he intends to go. However, The Temptation is no ordinary ship. For the last sixteen years, she has spent her life aboard The Temptation, a pirate ship captained by her father, Slade. Nix was born in Honolulu in 1868 – but her mother Lin died giving birth to her (Nix is half Chinese half Caucasian). Readers praise the fact that most of the novel takes place in nineteenth-century Hawaii, in a deeply researched and rich setting.

Centered on the experiences of the teenage daughter of the captain, the novel follows plot threads about trying to get back to her mother, trying to resolve a romantic triangle, and trying to salvage her fraying relationship with her distant father. Heidi Heilig’s The Girl from Everywhere (2016) is a young adult novel that mixes elements of fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction to tell the story of a sailing ship crew that can travel to anywhere in time, space, or fiction as long as it has a map.

The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig