Tristan Strong: Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from LibrarianRyan

Kwame has hit this book out of the park. He has a solid book that kids today will love, and kids of tomorrow will still be reading far into the future. Rick Riordan Presents looks to tell mythology stories in #ownvoices and unlike some other famous author imprints, he has not had a dud yet. This ...

from sylliu

Tristan Strong is a seventh grader mourning the death of his best friend and resentful of being sent to his grandparents in the country when his friend's magical journal propels him into a land where African and African-American myths--Anansi, Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit, John Henry, gods and monste...

from PagesandPieces

If you like Rick Riordan's books, you'll love this one. It's similar thematically to his books in the fact that a regular American teen gets thrust into the world of myth and Gods. In this case, it's a mixture of African Gods and Black American folklore. We meet a sassy Gum Baby, an interesting ...

from jennybeast

What an absolute delight -- hilarious, full of heart, stuffed with adventures, and a beautiful and thoughtful centering on African-American folklore. I mean really, I honestly don't see how this book could be improved, and Gum Baby is possibly one of the all time funniest characters I've ever enc...

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Tristan loses his first boxing match. Still reeling from the death of his best friend, he is sent to spend time over the summer with his grandparents in Alabama. He has a gift in the form of his recently-deceased best friend's journal which reveals he has some powers. Soon Tristan finds himself e...