Ibi Zoboi

(S)Kin

By Ibi Zoboi

Ibi Zoboi racked up accolades with American Street (a National Book Award finalist) and Nigeria Jones (a Coretta Scott King Award winner), among others in the bestselling author’s extensive bibliography. (S)kin sees Zoboi pivot to fantasy as this novel-in-verse follows two girls grappling with the magic they have inherited as soucouyants: fireball witches who, every new moon, shed their skin in order to fly into the night and feed on human blood.

Ibi Zoboi racked up accolades with American Street (a National Book Award finalist) and Nigeria Jones (a Coretta Scott King Award winner), among others in the bestselling author’s extensive bibliography. (S)kin sees Zoboi pivot to fantasy as this novel-in-verse follows two girls grappling with the…

Nigeria Jones

By Ibi Zoboi

In this story of a girl who questions her parents’ Black separatist utopian community, author Ibi Zoboi strikes a delicate balance with weighty themes.

In this story of a girl who questions her parents' Black separatist utopian community, author Ibi Zoboi strikes a delicate balance with weighty themes.

Star Child

By Ibi Zoboi

Author Ibi Zoboi shares a personal connection to her subject that makes her inventive biography of Octavia E. Butler even more compelling.

Author Ibi Zoboi shares a personal connection to her subject that makes her inventive biography of Octavia E. Butler even more compelling.

The People Remember

By Ibi Zoboi, Illustrated by Loveis Wise

In powerful, moving verse, The People Remember weaves together the history of African Americans with the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

In powerful, moving verse, The People Remember weaves together the history of African Americans with the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

Punching the Air

By Ibi Zoboi, By Yusef Salaam

Punching the Air is an intimate and moving portrait in verse of the realities and consequences of the school-to-prison pipeline.

Punching the Air is an intimate and moving portrait in verse of the realities and consequences of the school-to-prison pipeline.

American Street

By Ibi Zoboi

Poignant but hopeful, American Street is a powerful examination of identity and kinship that’s enriched by Zoboi’s use of Haitian mythology.

Poignant but hopeful, American Street is a powerful examination of identity and kinship that’s enriched by Zoboi’s use of Haitian mythology.

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