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The Revenant by Sonia Gensler is a 2011 young-adult supernatural mystery novel set in 1896 in the American South and Midwest. It follows a teenage girl who, under an assumed identity, takes a job as a teacher in the Cherokee Indian Territory in Oklahoma. As she adjusts to her role and maintains her ruse, she encounters supernatural events at the school and must uncover the cause of a ghost's violent actions to prevent harm. The novel explores themes of responsibility, family influence, and race relations. Topics of death and interpersonal conflict are present.