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Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky

Title
Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky / Kwame Mbalia.
Author
Mbalia, Kwame
Publication
  • Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
482 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
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 Bottle Tree. In a last attempt to get it away from the creature, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?
Series Statement
  • Tristan Strong ; 1
  • Mbalia, Kwame. Tristan Strong ; bk. 1.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Action and adventure fiction.
  • Fantasy fiction.
  • Paranormal fiction.
  • Science fiction.
  • Fiction.
  • Juvenile works.
Note
  • Map on lining papers.
  • "Rick Riordan presents"
Audience (note)
  • HL680L
  • Sentence length: 2 (easy) Word frequency: 1 (very easy)
Study Program (note)
  • Accelerated Reader AR
Awards (note)
  • Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Author, 2020.
Contents
The car ride -- The bottle trees -- Gum Baby -- Fight in the forest -- Haints and bone ships -- The raft -- Iron monsters 101 -- Fetterlings -- The paper giant -- The thicket -- The gods of MidPass -- The butterfly whisperer -- Anansesem -- Growing desperate -- Fuel for the gods -- The warren -- The worst plan ever -- The adinkra -- Attack! -- The bossling -- Brand flies -- Legend of the bottle rocket -- The golden crescent -- Nyame's palace -- That was no statue -- Bronzey to the rescue -- Nyame's charm -- Anansi's lair -- Rock lasers -- Into Isihlangu -- The elders -- Spirit of the imbongi -- Abiyoyo -- High John -- A different perspective -- The man of fire and smoke -- Missing memories -- The Story Box -- Unwelcome visitors -- Hullbeasts and brand flies -- The magic ax -- Hoodoo and confessions -- The Mmoatia forest -- We're all broken, Story Box, too -- Flight of the Midfolk -- A dangerous bargain -- King cotton -- Last stop -- Tricking the trickster -- Reveal -- Good-byes and new lives.
Call Number
Sc D 20-167
ISBN
  • 9781368039932
  • 1368039936
LCCN
2018057192
OCLC
1079413192
Author
Mbalia, Kwame, author.
Title
Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky / Kwame Mbalia.
Publisher
Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
National/regional group: North Carolinians
Gender group: Men
Series
Tristan Strong ; 1
Mbalia, Kwame. Tristan Strong ; bk. 1.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Audience
HL680L Lexile
Sentence length: 2 (easy) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) Lexile.
Study Program
Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 15.0.
Accelerated Reader AR 4.8 15.0 505341.
Awards
Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Author, 2020.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 20-167
JFD 20-1840
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