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Magic Has No Borders (Hardcover)
Samira Ahmed, Sona Charaipotra, Sabaa Tahir, Sayantani DasGupta, Tanaz Bhathena, …
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From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection
of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of
old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science
fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona
Charaipotra contains a wide range of stories from fourteen
bestselling, award-winning, and emerging writers from the South
Asian diaspora that will surprise, delight, and move you. So read
on, for after all, magic has no borders. A pair of star-crossed
lovers search for a way back to one another against all odds . . .
A girl fights for her life against a malignant, generations-old
evil . . . A peri seeks to reclaim her lost powers . . . A warrior
rebels against her foretold destiny . . . With stories by: Sabaa
Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the
Ember in the Ashes series, and winner of the National Book Award
and Printz Award for All My Rage Sayantani DasGupta, New York
Times bestselling author of the Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond
series Preeti Chhibber, author of Spider-Man’s Social Dilemma
Sona Charaipotra, author of Symptoms of a Heartbreak and How Maya
Got Fierce, and coauthor of The Rumor Game and Tiny Pretty Things,
now a Netflix original series. Tanaz Bhathena, award-winning author
of Hunted by the Sky and Of Light and Shadow Sangu Mandanna,
bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
and the Celestial Trilogy Olivia Chadha, author of Rise of the Red
Hand Nafiza Azad, author of William C. Morris Award nominee, The
Candle and the Flame Tracey Baptiste, New York Times bestselling
author of The Jumbies series and Minecraft: The Crash Naz Kutub,
author of The Loophole Nikita Gill, bestselling author of Wild
Embers and Fierce Fairytales Swati Teerdhala, author of the Tiger
at Midnight trilogy Shreya Ila Anasuya, New Voices selection Tahir
Abrar, New Voices selection
"In African Icons, Baptiste engages in the hard work of unveiling
the myths about the African continent to young readers . . . This
is a great beginner's guide to pre-colonial Africa." - Ibram X.
Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the
Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist Meet ten real-life kings,
queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who lived in Africa
thousands of years ago and changed the world. Black history is a
rich and thrilling collection of stories that begins thousands of
years ago with the many cultures and people of the African
continent. Through portraits of ten heroic figures, bestselling
author Tracey Baptiste takes readers on a journey across Africa to
meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose vision built a
continent and shaped the world. - Menes: Creator of Dynasties -
Merneith: A Queen Erased - Imhotep: From Peasant to God - Aesop:
The Wisest Man in the Ancient World - Hannibal Barca: Unparalleled
Military Strategist - Terence: North African Playwright -
Amanirenas: Warrior, Diplomat, Queen - Tin Hinan: Founding a City
on the Dunes - Mansa Musa: The Richest Man of All Time - Queen
Idia: Kingmaker Illustrator Hillary D. Wilson's brilliant portraits
accompany each profile, along with vivid, information-filled
landscapes, maps, and graphics for readers to pore over and return
to again and again. Both an empowering and energetic read and an
essential correction to Eurocentric telling's of history, African
Icons will enthral readers of all ages.
"In African Icons, Baptiste engages in the hard work of unveiling
the myths about the African continent to young readers . . . This
is a great beginner's guide to pre-colonial Africa." --Ibram X.
Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the
Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist Meet ten real-life kings,
queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who lived in Africa
thousands of years ago and changed the world. Black history began
long ago with the many cultures and people of the African
continent. Through portraits of ten heroic figures, author Tracey
Baptiste takes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of
the great leaders and thinkers whose vision built a continent and
shaped the world. Illustrator Hillary D. Wilson's brilliant
portraits accompany each profile, along with vivid,
information-filled landscapes, maps, and graphics for readers to
pore over and return to again and again.
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The Jumbies (Paperback)
Tracey Baptiste
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Corinne La Mer isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the
boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They're just
tricksters parents make up to frighten their children. Then one
night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden
forest. Those shining yellow eyes that followed her to the edge of
the trees, they couldn't belong to a jumbie. Or could they? When
Corinne spots a beautiful stranger speaking to the town witch at
the market the next day, she knows something unexpected is about to
happen. And when this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at
Corinne's house, Corinne is sure that danger is in the air. She
soon finds out that bewitching her father, Pierre, is only the
first step in Severine's plan to claim the entire island for the
jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn
to use ancient magic she didn't know she possessed to stop Severine
and to save her island home.
A tour-de-force collection of stories about the black experience,
by award-winning, bestselling, and emerging African American YA
authors. Black is...two sisters navigating their relationship at
summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renee Watson. Black
is...Jason Reynolds writing about three guys walking back from the
community pool talking about nothing and everything. Black is...Nic
Stone's bougie debutante dating a boy her momma would never approve
of. Black is...two girls kissing in Justina Ireland's story set in
Maryland. Black is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race,
immigrants, and more-because there are countless ways to be black
enough. Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, this is
an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like
to be young and black in America.
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The Jumbies (Hardcover)
Tracey Baptiste
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R367
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When a new virtual-reality version of Minecraft brings her dreams to life, one player must face her worst nightmares.
Bianca has never been good at following the plan. She’s more of an act-now, deal-with-the-consequences-later type of person. But consequences can’t be put off forever, as Bianca learns when she and her best friend, Lonnie, are in a terrible car crash.
Waking up in the hospital, Bianca is faced with questions she’s not equipped to answer. She chooses instead to try a virtual-reality version of Minecraft that gives her control over a world at the very moment she thought she’d lost it. There she encounters a glitching avatar she believes to be Lonnie. Bianca teams up with Esme and Anton – two kids also playing on the hospital server – to save her friend.
Is Lonnie really stuck in the game? And can Bianca help him back to reality?
A Black woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus
sparked a bus boycott and became part of one of the most iconic
moments in American history. Yet, few know that Rosa Parks had
actively worked toward social justice her whole life. And even
fewer know that the seeds of the statewide bus boycott were first
planted by a teenager named Claudette Colvin, who was arrested on
similar charges months earlier. Parks and Colvin inspired a nation,
showing how positive change can start with a single defiant act.
Their actions have become the stuff of legend, but there is so much
more to their lives, their stories, and the movement they began.
New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste and acclaimed
illustrator Amber Ren take readers on a fun, creepy,
storytime-ready romp through a forest filled with creatures from
Caribbean folklore. I'm looking for a jumbie, I'm going to find a
scary one. But Mama says jumbies exist only in stories. So Naya
sets out on a nighttime adventure to find out for herself. No such
thing, say the friends she makes along the way. But Naya is sure
that jumbies are real. Some have big mouths. Or thick fur. Or
glowing skin. Or sharp teeth. Kind of like her new friends....
Looking for a Jumbie is a gentle, bouncy, and creepily fun
read-aloud inspired by traditional Caribbean tales.
The scariest and most heart-pounding installment of the highly
praised and popular Jumbies series! Huracan summons the wind and
rain and wields lightning like a sword. He doesn't miss and he
never falters. He will destroy everything in his path if he
desires. When an out-of-season hurricane sweeps through Corinne's
seaside village, she knows it's not an ordinary storm. At first
Corinne believes Mama D'Leau, the powerful and cruel jumbie who
rules the ocean, has caused the hurricane. Then an even more
ferocious storm wrecks the island, sending villagers fleeing their
houses for shelter in the mountains, and Corinne discovers the
chaos wasn't caused by a jumbie, but by an angry god, Huracan.
Corinne, with the help of her friends and even some of her enemies,
must race against time to find out what has angered Huracan and try
to fix it before her island home is destroyed forever. The Jumbie
God's Revenge blends Caribbean and West African tales to present
powerful themes of community and heroism in a thrilling action
adventure.
Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but
things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island
home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her
neighbors treat her with mistrust. When local children begin to go
missing, snatched from the beach and vanishing into wells,
suspicious eyes turn to Corinne. To rescue the missing children and
clear her own name, Corinne goes deep into the ocean to find Mama
D'Leau, the dangerous jumbie who rules the sea. But Mama D'Leau's
help comes with a price. Corinne and her friends Dru, Bouki, and
Malik must travel with mermaids across the ocean to fetch a
powerful object for Mama D'Leau. The only thing more perilous than
Corinne's adventures across the sea is the jumbie that waits for
her back home. With action-packed storytelling and inventive twists
on Caribbean and West African mythology and fairy tales, Rise of
the Jumbies is a breathlessly exciting tale of courage and
friendship. An NPR Best Book of 2017 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of
2017 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017
When an out-of-season hurricane sweeps through Corinne's seaside
village, Corinne knows it's not a typical storm. At first Corinne
believes Mama D'Leau-the powerful and cruel jumbie who rules the
ocean-has caused the hurricane. Then a second, even more ferocious
storm wrecks the island, sending villagers fleeing their houses for
shelter in the mountains, and Corinne discovers the storms weren't
caused by a jumbie, but by the angry god Huracan. Now Corinne, with
the help of her friends and even some of her enemies, must race
against time to find out what has angered Huracan and try to fix it
before her island home is destroyed forever.
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Because Claudette (Hardcover)
Tracey Baptiste; Illustrated by Tonya Engel
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From NYT bestselling author Tracey Baptiste comes a singular
picture book that is both a biography about Claudette Colvin, the
teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a
celebration of collective action. When fifteen-year-old Claudette
Colvin boarded a segregated bus on March 2, 1955, she had no idea
she was about to make history. At school she was learning about
abolitionists like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, which helped
inspire her decision to refuse to give up her seat to a white
woman, which led to her arrest, which began a crucial chain of
events: Rosa Park's sit-in nine months later, the organization of
the Montgomery bus boycott by activists like Professor Jo Ann
Robinson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Supreme Court
decision that Alabama's bus segregation was unconstitutional-a
major triumph for the civil rights movement. Because of Claudette's
brave stand against injustice, history was transformed. Now it's
time for young readers to learn about this living legend, her
pivotal role in the civil rights movement, and the power of one
person reaching out to another in the fight for change.
Grace has always had wild red hair like no one else in her family
and a birthmark on her shoulder that her mother told her was the
mark of an angel. When Grace is sent from New York to spend the
summer with her grandmother in Trinidad, she looks through the
family album and discovers a blurred photograph of a stranger with
a birthmark -- "her" birthmark -- and Grace is full of questions.
No one is able to identify the man in the photo, and Grace is left
with no choice but to find out who he is and what he might mean to
her. What Grace does not know is that her search will lead to a
discovery about herself and her family that she never could have
imagined.
Tracey Baptiste's first novel is a tender coming-of-age story
set on the island of Trinidad. "Angel's Grace" explores the meaning
of identity and truth, and the unbreakable ties of a family bound
by love.
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