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#Giveaway TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY by Kwame Mbalia @KSekouM @DisneyBooks Ends 11.2

September 30, 2019 By Mary

by Kwame Mbalia
Published by Disney-Hyperion

TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY Tour 

About the Book
Title: TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY
Author: Kwame Mbalia
Pub. Date: October 1, 2019
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion, Rick Riordan Presents
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook
Pages: 496

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD

 

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 journal. 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 gods 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?

 

About Kwame:

Kwame is a husband, father, writer, and pharmaceutical metrologist in that order.  His debut middle-grade novel, TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY (October 15, 2019) is published by Rick Riordan Presents/Disney-Hyperion.  A Howard University graduate and a Midwesterner now in North Carolina, he enjoys impromptu dance sessions and Cheezits.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY, US Only.

 

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Tour Schedule:
Week One:
10/1/2019- BookHounds YA– Excerpt
10/2/2019- Little Red Reads– Excerpt
10/3/2019- Spoiled Girl– Review
10/4/2019- A Backwards Story– Review

Week Two:
10/7/2019- Lifestyle of Me– Review
10/8/2019- Sometimes Leelynn Reads– Excerpt
10/9/2019- Books a Plenty Book Reviews– Review
10/10/2019- Kait Plus Books– Excerpt
10/11/2019- Kyera’s Library– Review
 
Week Three:
10/14/2019- The Reading Corner for All– Review
10/15/2019- Feed Your Fiction Addiction– Review
10/16/2019- Eli to the nth– Review
10/17/2019- Feed Your Fiction Addiction– Review
10/18/2019- PopTheButterfly Reads– Review

Week Four:
10/21/2019- Savings in Seconds– Review
10/22/2019- Always Me – Review
10/23/2019- Fictitiouswonderland– Review
10/24/2019- Nerdophiles– Review
10/25/2019- Confessions of a YA Reader– Review

Week Five:
10/28/2019- Two points of interest– Review
10/29/2019- fictitious.fox– Review
10/30/2019- Jena Brown Writes– Review
10/31/2019- Fyrekatz Blog– Review

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Comments

  1. Danielle Hammelef says

    October 1, 2019 at 11:33 am

    This sounds fun to read. Love the powerful cover.

  2. Autumn says

    October 1, 2019 at 7:52 pm

    I love how great these Rick Riordan presents books are. My son will love this one.

  3. Vicki Wurgler says

    October 3, 2019 at 5:10 am

    book sounds good-thanks

  4. Debra Branigan says

    October 3, 2019 at 10:38 am

    Awesome! We need more books with young African-American protagonists! Thanks for sharing. I look forward to read this book and donating a few copies to my local school.

  5. NANCY says

    October 4, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    Great cover artwork.

  6. Antoinette M says

    October 15, 2019 at 9:39 am

    My nephew would love this book. Cool cover!

  7. bn100 says

    October 15, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    interesting

  8. Dynal Roberson says

    October 22, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    keep up the good work!

  9. Penny Olson says

    October 24, 2019 at 8:22 pm

    I love Anansi stories! I think I will really love this book.

  10. Steph says

    October 25, 2019 at 10:21 am

    This book sounds awesome. A very original idea. Love that John Henry is in it and the cover art is amazing.

  11. Cayla says

    October 27, 2019 at 6:14 pm

    I read this book and it was amazing! So much need for little black boys and girls to read to see themselves as heroes too! You can check it out in Badandbookish.video.blog

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