But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. 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.

Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. 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 chases after it-is that a doll?-and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree. He hails from a proud line of fighters the family motto is Strongs keep punching. Set in modern-day Chicago, Alabama, and the mythical lands of Alke, the novel is the hero’s journey of Tristan Strong, a seventh grader coming to terms with the death of his best friend. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan Strong is a 13-year-old up-and-coming boxer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, published by Kwame Mbalia in 2019, is the first novel in a middle-grade fantasy trilogy. 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.

All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. 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. Handpicked by Amazon kids’ books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box – a children’s subscription that inspires a love of reading.īest-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.

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