Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends.
And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.Īlmost finished with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.
18 YA Books By POC Writers That You Need To Read To celebrate this amazing moment, we wanted to highlight some amazing YA books by POC writers so, in addition to the four amazing books you see above, we asked the bookstagram community to share their favorite reads and rounded them all up for you below! Scroll down to see which books by authors of color that you absolutely NEED to get your hands on. Representation matters and recognition that it matters is giving us LIFE and making our book nerd hearts swell with pride 💗💗💗 Wow look at all these New York Times bestsellers we're kind of obsessed /9Ycd2LyQCC Just look at four of the books on the Young Adult Hardcover list!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Why? Because there was an AMAZING representation of authors of color on the Childrens’ best sellers list and we seriously cannot be more thrilled that these books are getting the love and respect that they deserve!!! When the New York Times best sellers list dropped, YA Twitter went off in the best possible way.
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