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* [[Prophecies Are Always Right]]: Technically.
* [[Really 700 Years Old]]: Chiron "Ringfinger" Brown is 109 years old, but hasn't aged in decades.
* [[Sadly Mythtaken]]: (taken from the page) ''Summerland'' takes place in a world that cheerily mashes together Native American and Norse mythology. This leads to the reveal, utterly brain-breaking if you know your mythology, that {{spoiler|Coyote Changer}} is also {{spoiler|Loki and the Devil}}. Seriously. (And for its next trick, the rules of the Universe are based on those of baseball.)
* [[Shout-Out]]: Spider Rose is named after Chabon's daughter, Ida-Rose Chabon.
** One scene mentions that Ethan sleeps wearing an extra-large [[Hellboy]] t-shirt. This is likely a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Dark Horse Comics]], who published a comic book spin-off of Chabon's previous novel ''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay]]''.
* [[The Quest]]: If you strip the book down to its bare bones, this is essentially the plot.
* [[Thinking Up Portals]]: There is a whole subclass of people, called "Shadowtails," who can do this either to teleport from place to place (called "scampering") or to teleport to different worlds on the Lodgepole (called "leaping"). Thor Wignutt turns out to be one, and he uses his power to take himself and his companions to the Summerlands.
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* [[Tomboy]]: Jennifer T., and how.
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: Most of the references to Norse mythology likely went right over the head of the target audience.
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