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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Tracey Baptiste, Author . S&S/Wiseman $15.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-689-86773-6
While the plot of this first novel is highly improbable, the Caribbean setting and cast of colorful characters will attract readers who enjoy books about exotic lands and family secrets. Narrator Grace, 13, would rather be back home in Brooklyn than
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Tracey Baptiste. Algonquin Young Readers, $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61620-414-3
Baptiste (Angel’s Grace) mines Caribbean folklore for her second novel. The jumbies are ancient, shape-shifting spirits living amid old-growth mahogany forests, feared and whispered about by humans. Eleven-year-old Corinne and her father, Pierre,...
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Cedella Marley with Tracey Baptiste, illus. by Tiffany Rose. Random House, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-30111-1
Young Marley and her musical family have recently moved from Jamaica to Delaware, where they had plans to introduce themselves to the community with an outdoor concert—until rain calls off the gig. Marley applies her knowledge of hurricanes to the...
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Tracey Baptiste, illus. by Hillary D. Wilson. Algonquin, $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-61620-900-1
This riveting nonfiction work by Baptiste (the Jumbies series), aiming to reveal how “Africa has fueled the world,” details the lives of 10 individuals, including Aesop, Merneith, Terence, and Tin Hinan, from African dynasties that are rarely...
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Tracey Baptiste. Freedom Fire, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-368-07437-7
Three cousins come together to save the Caribbean Day Parade from dark forces in this exuberant series opener from Baptiste (the Jumbies series). Twelve-year-old Misty recently moved in with extended family in Brooklyn. Though she wants to explore,...
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Tracey Baptiste. Algonquin, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-643-75381-2
After 13-year-old Coal Keegan’s foster father experiences a mental health crisis, Coal is sent to live with new foster family the McKays. Though the adults try to make Coal feel welcome, he doesn’t trust them yet, and is still smarting from the last
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Tracey Baptiste, illus. by Tonya Engel. Dial, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-32640-4
Emphasizing cause and effect, Baptiste follows activist Claudette Colvin (b. 1939), who, at age 15, refused to relinquish her bus seat for a white person. After her arrest, she met Rosa Parks thanks to her lawyer, Fred Gray; subsequently, Colvin...
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Tracey Baptiste, illus. by Leisl Adams. Algonquin, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-64375-077-4
In Baptiste’s sweet tale of oceanic connection, a mermaid and a pirate, each portrayed with brown skin, exult in storms. “She liked to roll with the waves and dance to the beat of the rain on the sea.... He liked how the wind whipped the water and...
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