Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky /

By: Mbalia, Kwame [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 482 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeAudience: Age level: Children | Age level: Preteens | Educational level group: Fourth grade students | Educational level group: Fifth grade students | Educational level group: Sixth grade students | Educational level group: Seventh grade students | Educational level group: Eighth grade students | Educational level group: Middle school students | Educational level group: School childrenISBN: 9781368039932; 1368039936Subject(s): Henry, John (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction | Brer Rabbit (Trickster) -- Juvenile fiction | Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction | African Americans -- 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 | JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / African | JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American | JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship | Adventure stories | African Americans | Self-confidence | Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction | African Americans -- Juvenile fiction | Characters and characteristics in literature -- Juvenile fiction | Occult fiction | Self-confidence -- Fiction | African Americans -- Fiction | Characters in literature -- Fiction | Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction | Supernatural -- Fiction | Science fictionGenre/Form: Adventure stories. | Science fiction. | Fiction. | Juvenile works. | Adventure fiction. | Science fiction. | Action and adventure fiction.
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.
Awards: Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Author, 2020.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?
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Map on lining papers.

"Rick Riordan presents."

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.

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?

HL680L Lexile.

Sentence length: 2 (easy) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) Lexile.

Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 15.0.

Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Author, 2020.