Book

Black boy joy / edited by Kwame Mbalia ; stories by B.B. Alston [and 16 others].

First edition.

New York : Delacorte Press, [2021]

296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

2021

A collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.

9-12.

4-7.

710 Lexile.

African Americans -- Literary collections.

Boys -- Literary collections.

American literature -- African American authors.

Children's literature, American.

African Americans -- Literary collections.

Boys -- Literary collections.

American literature -- African American authors -- Collections.

Mbalia, Kwame, editor.

Alston, B. B., author.

"17 stories celebrating Black boyhood"--Jacket.

Kirkus Review - Adult,061521

Booklist, 070121, p. 80

School Library Journal, 080121, p. 78

Publisher's Weekly,080921

The griot of Grover Street: part one / by Kwame Mbalia -- There's going to be a fight in the cafeteria on Friday and you better not bring Batman / by Lamar Giles -- "The McCcoy game" / by B.B. Alston -- The legendary Lawrence Cobbler / by Julian Winters -- First-day fly / by Jason Reynolds -- Got me a jet pack / by Don P. Hooper -- Extinct / by Dean Atta -- Epic venture / by Jay Coles -- The definition of cool / by Varian Johnson -- The griot of Grover Street: part two / by Kwame Mbalia -- Five thousand light-years to home / by Suyi Davies Okungbowa -- Coping / by Tochi Onyebuchi -- The gender reveal / by George M. Johnson -- Kassius's foolproof guide to losing the Turkey Bowl / by Davaun Sanders -- But also, jazz / by Julian Randall -- Our Dill / by Justin A. Reynolds -- Percival and the jab / by P. Djèlí Clark -- Embracing my Black boy joy / by Jerry Craft -- The griot of Grover Street: part three / by Kwame Mbalia.

0593379934

9780593379936

1237807392

0

2149489