Ibi Zoboi. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-247304-2
Zoboi’s powerful debut, set in current-day Detroit (but based on the author’s experience as a Haitian immigrant in 1980s Bushwick, Brooklyn), unflinchingly tackles contemporary issues of immigration, assimilation, violence, and drug dealing....
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Ibi Zoboi. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06256-404-7
“It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when rich people move into the hood... the first thing they want to do is clean it up,” begins this Pride and Prejudice retelling that stands solidly on its own while cleverly paralleling Austen’s classic...
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Ibi Zoboi. Dutton, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-18735-3
Rising seventh-grader Ebony-Grace Norfleet Freeman (or, as she prefers, Cadet E-Grace Starfleet) is obsessed with all manner of science fiction, much preferring her spacefaring internal life to the real world. When her aging grandfather, who was...
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Ibi Zoboi. Dutton, $16.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-399-18738-4
Alternating between verse forms, prose interludes, and direct quotations, Zoboi (The People Remember) recounts the life and career of legendary speculative fiction writer Octavia Butler (1947–2006), emphasizing her beginnings as a “star child” (her...
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Ibi Zoboi. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-288884-6
Sixteen-year-old Nigeria Jones explores complex relationships with her famous freedom-fighter father and her all-Black commune in this striking portrait by Zoboi (Star Child). All her life, Nigeria has been homeschooled by teachers in the Movement,...
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Edited by Ibi Zoboi. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-269872-8
This collection of 17 original stories is written by contemporary black authors who explore “teens examining, rebelling against, embracing, or simply existing within their own idea of blackness.” The tales offer a wide array of perspectives and...
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Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $19.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-299648-0
Zoboi (Pride) and Salaam (one of the Exonerated Five) together craft a powerful indictment of institutional racism and mass incarceration through the imagined experience of Amal, a Black, Muslim 16-year-old facing imprisonment. Amal, a gifted artist
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Ibi Zoboi, illus. by Loveis Wise. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-291564-1
In her picture book debut, Zoboi employs magnetic, allusive free verse to describe the course of history as experienced by members of the African diaspora and enslaved African peoples. Simultaneously, the title demonstrates the seven principles of...
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Jennifer L. Armentrout et al. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-328-75987-0
“This might be a love story, so I want to tell it the right way,” begins Nina LaCour’s entry in an anthology celebrating serendipitous run-ins that feel bigger than coincidence, in this case a customer-service-related flirtation between two teenage...
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