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YA
After landing in New York from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained. Fabiola continues alone to her aunt and cousins in Detroit, where she receives a crash course in cultural differences and learns her family is involved in the drug trade. Throughout the story, Fabiola turns to her Vodou faith to reunite with her mother. Zoboi's YA debut is equal parts gritty and transcendent.
Reviewer: Eboni Njoku
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2017
263 pp.
| Random
| September, 2015
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TradeISBN 978-0-553-51115-4$16.99
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LibraryISBN 978-0-553-51116-1$19.99
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EbookISBN 978-0-553-51117-8
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4-6
Twist My Charm series.
Eleven-year-old Cleo struggles to fit in at her new Los Angeles private school, but when she and her best friend use the voodoo doll Cleo receives from her "free spirit" Louisianan uncle to become popular, it leads to one bad thing after another. In this series-starter, Gallagher accurately portrays the emotional experiences of middle schoolers through a unique lens of voodoo and magic.
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YA
Dangers lurk as Violet discovers violent ambitions among her relatives and falls in love with a wounded Yankee soldier mysteriously cared for by a local doctor with peculiar religious beliefs. Richly peopled with distinctive characters and enlivened by a Civil War setting, this novel draws from both the traditions of the Southern gothic and the Scottish legend of Tam Lin.
359 pp.
| Dial
| November, 2013
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TradeISBN 978-0-8037-3774-7$17.99
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YA
New Orleans teen Claire may be a non-believer when it comes to voodoo, but as a descendent of a renowned voodoo queen, she finds herself the target of a dangerous vendetta. Unable to rely on the voodoo Guild for help, Claire and other first-borns investigate on their own, exploring darker voodoo territory. Well-paced slightly paranormal entertainment with a knockout setting.