Where the Black Flowers Bloom

Name: Where the Black Flowers Bloom (eBook)
Brand: HarperCollins
SKU: 209458
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Where the Black Flowers Bloom

Ronald L. Smith

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A gripping, richly imagined fantasy set in an alternate ancient African world in which a Black girl finds her power and saves her people from evil, by the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning author of Black Panther: The Young Prince.

In the land of Alkebulan, twelve-year-old Asha is an orphan, raised by Madame S, the proprietor of a traveling carnival. When Madame S is attacked by ghoulish creatures, she manages to tell Asha before she dies, “Seek the Underground Kingdom, where the black flowers bloom.”

Asha doesn’t understand the mysterious words, but they launch her onto a page-turning quest to protect her people and stop an ancient evil. Along the way, she uncovers shocking secrets about the family she never knew and begins to find her place in the world as she discovers her own untapped powers.

Genres

Fantasy & MagicJuvenile FictionDiversity & MulticulturalAfricaPlacesAlternative FamilyFamilySiblingsParanormal, Occult & SupernaturalSelf-Esteem & Self-RelianceSocial ThemesCircusPerforming ArtsTravelGhost Stories

Pages240

Released2023

LanguageEnglish

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN9780358555650

SellerHarperCollins

About the author(s)

Ronald L. Smith is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award–winning author of several novels for young readers, including Hoodoo, The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away, Gloom Town, Project Mercury, and the Black Panther: The Young Prince series. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. To learn more, visit strangeblackflowers.com.

Reviews

(Where the Black Flowers Bloom) "Inspired by African mythology and folklore, this lushly wrought hero’s journey touches deftly on themes of family, fate, forgiveness, and justice." — Publishers Weekly

(Where the Black Flowers Bloom) "Elaborate worldbuilding will draw readers in. . . . Hand this to young readers seeking adventurous new fantasy." — School Library Journal

(Where the Black Flowers Bloom) "A wild and beautiful coming-of-age story of a girl who has far more power than she knows." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

(Where the Black Flowers Bloom) "A captivating quest for family, magic, and belonging." — Kirkus Reviews