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Tristan Strong Books

In order from Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky to Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Keeps Punching
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Tristan Strong Destroys the World
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Keeps Punching
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Tristan Strong Destroys the World

Table of Contents

chapter • 496 Pages
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
#1 in Series
Book #1

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

Written and illustrated by Kwame Mbalia
8 - 12
Reading age
496
Page count
Oct 15, 2019
Publication date
Hardcover
$17.99
$16.97

Summary

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia’s epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods. 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 in Alabama, where he’s being sent to heal from the tragedy. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie’s notebook. Tristan chases after it–is that a doll?–and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree. In a last attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature’s hands, 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 that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. 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 and seal the hole in the sky. But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?

Tristan Strong Series

Published from 2019 - 2021
3 books
chapter • 496 Pages
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
chapter • 400 Pages
Tristan Strong Destroys the World
#2 in Series
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
chapter • 320 Pages
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Keeps Punching
#3 in Series
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
Year#TitlePages
20191Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky496
20202Tristan Strong Destroys the World400
20213Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Keeps Punching320

Tristan Strong Graphic Novel Series

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The Creative Behind the Books

    Author & Illustrator
    Kwame Mbalia

    Kwame Mbalia is the New York Times best-selling author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, for which he received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor award. The book was also named to best-of-the-year lists compiled by Publishers Weekly, the Chicago Public Library, and the New York Times. The second book in the trilogy is Tristan Strong Destroys the World. Kwame lives with his wife and children in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is currently working on the third book about Tristan. Follow him on Twitter @KSekouM.

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