Sisters of the Neversea

Like the author, who was distressed as a child by the insulting portrayal of Native Americans in the original Peter Pan, main character Lily is Muscogee Creek. She and her English-born stepsister Wendy share a little brother, Michael. Neither Wendy nor Lily has much patience for ignorance and stereotypes, both of which they find in Neverland. Peter's treatment of abducted Indigenous kids, in Neverland and elsewhere, is often cruel and ignorant (including calling them "Injuns"), but they determinedly stick together, keep their traditions alive, and remember who they are. One of the Native characters describes herself as "two-spirit" (a term for someone who identifies as having both a masculine and a feminine spirit), explaining why Peter, who normally only abducts boys, ended up with her. Another stereotype-busting character explains that she fell prey to Peter's schemes by not looking "girly."

Peter has been kidnapping kids and holding them against their will for a century, feeding them to a crocodile when they turn 13. He's also been killing off most of the wildlife and stirring up warfare to keep himself entertained. There's lots of peril, swordplay, shooting of arrows, etc., but none of the characters comes to real harm -- though there's plenty of talk about characters in the past who've been made to walk the plank and plenty of singing about Davy Jones' locker. Perilous situations with near-drownings, scary caves. Different groups all think the other is evil and murderous, which is rarely the actual case, but they all have moments of seeming pretty scary. A boy in Neverland is reluctant to return home because he has an abusive, drunken stepfather.

Lily and the other Native kids get really tired of being called insulting slurs like "Injun" and other terms that were plentiful in the original Peter Pan.

A lot of pirate singing of "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum," but when it comes time to celebrate and break out the rum, the captain says firmly, "None for the sprogs." Fairy dust is seen as having long-term effects like memory loss and extreme self-absorption.