Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky

Title
Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky

Personal Author EPSB
Kwame, Mbalia

Summary
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. 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. 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.

Year Published
2019-2020

Physical Description
482 pages : map ; 22 cm

Note
Map on lining papers.
 
"Rick Riordan presents."

Awards
2022 Young Reader’s Choice Award YRCA Intermediate nominee

Personal Subject
Henry, John (Legendary character)-Fiction.
 
Brer Rabbit (Trickster)-Fiction.

Subject
Self-confidence -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Fiction.
 
Anansi (Legendary character) -- Fiction.
 
Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction.
 
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction.

Genre
Action and adventure fiction
 
Fantasy fiction

Summary
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. 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. 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.

ISBN
9781368039932
 
9781368042413

Publisher
Los Angeles, CA : Disney-Hyperion, 2019.
 
New York : Hachette Book Group, 2020.
 
©2019


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
BritanniaF MBABook30551000253902Fiction