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Mbalia, Kwame. TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY Los Angeles : Disney-Hyperion, 2019. IL 3-6 ISBN: 978-1368039932. |
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Tristan is miserable after losing his first boxing match, which disappointed his father, and – far worse - failing to save the life of his best friend, Eddie, in a bus accident. He takes Eddie’s journal with him to his grandparents’ farm in Alabama where he’s being sent to spend the summer - and the action begins when a sticky doll-like creature called Gum Baby shows up to steal it. Chasing after Gum Baby and the journal, Tristan punches a hole in his grandmother’s Bottle Tree and at the same time unknowingly punches a hole in the sky of Midpass, a world of burning seas, bone ships, monsters, and gods. In Midpass, Tristan joins forces with African-American icons John Henry and Brer Rabbit to help the inhabitants break free of the terrible creatures who are after them - and to try to convince tricky Anansi the Weaver to repair Tristan’s hole in the sky. (Vermont Middle Grade Book Award, 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Henry, John -- (Legendary character) -- Juvenile
fiction. Brer Rabbit -- (Trickster) -- Juvenile fiction. Anansi -- (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction. Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction. Supernatural -- Fiction. Characters in literature -- Fiction. Self-confidence -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction. Science fiction. |
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