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Author
Series
Tristan Strong volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...
Author
Series
Tristan Strong volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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 magic cellphone. Her name is Seraphine, and she seems to know everything about Tristan and the god Anansi (currently inhabiting the cellphone). She has a mission for Tristan, one that is going lead to...
Author
Series
Tristan Strong volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Enduring an isolated existence in hardscrabble Addis Prime, a star underground augmented reality gamer finds his small family targeted by city-razing monsters waging a galaxy-spanning war.
Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime -- a hardscrabble city with rundown tech, lots of rules, and not much to do. His worrywart Uncle Moti and bionic lioness Besa are his only family... and his only friends. Often in trouble for his thrill-seeking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Yared has traveled a long way to find his place in the universe. Light years, even. Though the battle of Addis Prime is over, the spacefaring Axum Empire is still fractured. The kingdom once gave their technology away free of charge, to better humankind. Now, having been missing for over a decade, they're returning to the planet where their galaxy-spanning civilization began--Earth. But they find the planet in disarray. Old Earth's atmosphere is...
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Physical Desc
viii, 393 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of fifteen fantasy stories written in partnership with the organization, We Need Diverse Books.
In the fourth collaboration with We Need Diverse Books, fifteen award-winning and celebrated diverse authors deliver stories about a princess without need of a prince, a monster long misunderstood, memories that vanish with a spell, and voices that refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. This powerful and inclusive collection contains...
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
vi, 325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redefines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An anthology featuring over thirty Black authors and illustrators to honor Black life past, present, and future"--