Rise Of The Jumbies

"Why buy another mediocre retelling of a Greek myth for your kid, when you can introduce them to a gorgeously told fairy tale that originated outside of Europe? Jumbies are the malevolent spirits of Caribbean folklore, and Corrine is the plucky 11-year-old heroine who had to call on her own magic to fight them in Tracey Baptiste’s first book, The Jumbies. This one, Rise of the Jumbies, is one of those great sequels that really delivers on the promise of its predecessor – taking Corrine and her buddies into an expanded undersea world and connecting the mythology to the roots of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, in a way that is complex but not heavy-handed."