Mbalia, Kwame
Summary: The Strong family is having a reunion in New Orleans, and twelve-year-old Tristan is supposed to be keeping an eye on his younger cousin Terrance when several things happen at once: he sees his archenemy, King Cotton, and a mysterious girl grabs his magiccellphone--her name is Seraphine, and she seems to know everything about Tristan and the god Anansi (currently inhabiting the cellphone), and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBAMbalia, Kwame
Summary: Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MBAMbalia, Keame
Summary: "Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend Eddie when they were in a bus accident together. But on his first night at his grandparents' farm, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie's notebook. When Tristan chases after, he finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale. a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBAMbalia, Kwame
Summary: Seventh-grader Tristan must return to Alke and enlist the help of African gods and black folktale heroes when Nana is abducted from the Strong family farm in Alabama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MBATaylor, Laini
Summary: In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle with their new boundaries as Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: YA PA FIC TAYSmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMITaylor, Laini
Summary: "The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around, and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018