Rise Of The Jumbies
by Tracey Baptiste
Buy on AmazonDeep beneath the waves, a great enemy awakens . . . Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven’t exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her neighbors treat her with mistrust. When local children begin to go missing, snatched from the beach and vanishing into wells, suspicious eyes turn to Corinne. To rescue the missing children and clear her own name, Corinne goes deep into the ocean to find Mama D’Leau, the dangerous jumbie who rules the sea. But Mama D’Leau’s help comes with a price. Corinne and her friends Dru, Bouki, and Malik must travel with mermaids across the ocean to fetch a powerful object for Mama D’Leau.…
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"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."
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