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The Jumbies Paperback - 2016
by Baptiste, Tracey
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Details
- Title The Jumbies
- Author Baptiste, Tracey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Algonquin Young Readers
- Date 2016-04-26
- Bookseller's Inventory # 31UIGP005I9C_ns
- ISBN 9781616205928 / 161620592X
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
- Ages 09 to 12 years
- Grade levels 4 - 7
- Reading level 680
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Caribbean
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Caribbean
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Magic, Caribbean Area
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014038605
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
"A scary but cheerful tale that draws on Caribbean folk traditions. A great update on the 'town under supernatural attack' story,
with a marvelous setting." --The Baltimore Sun Corinne La Mer claims she isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They're just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest, and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldn't belong to a jumbie. Or could they? When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day, she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. When this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne's house, danger is in the air. Severine plans to claim the entire island for the jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn't know she possessed to stop Severine and to save her island home. "Entrancing and engaging . . . Baptiste enters an all-new folktale adaptation into our regular fantasy lore. Original. Haunting."--Fuse 8 "Endlessly addictive and hypnotic." --Essence
with a marvelous setting." --The Baltimore Sun Corinne La Mer claims she isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They're just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest, and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldn't belong to a jumbie. Or could they? When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day, she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. When this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne's house, danger is in the air. Severine plans to claim the entire island for the jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn't know she possessed to stop Severine and to save her island home. "Entrancing and engaging . . . Baptiste enters an all-new folktale adaptation into our regular fantasy lore. Original. Haunting."--Fuse 8 "Endlessly addictive and hypnotic." --Essence
