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YA, YA Fiction

(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.

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Review of ‘(S)Kin’

Fifteen-year-old Marisol remembers a life before New York City, one where she and her mother worked in hotels to serve island tourists, surrounded by other magical women to support them on nights they shapeshifted. Around the new moon, she and her mother—and other women like them—shed their skins into fireballs that fly across the sky…

Behind the Book by Ibi Zoboi

The award-winning author’s sixth novel for young adults, (S)Kin, explores contemporary issues through creatures from Caribbean mythology.

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