Hoodoo

Title: Hoodoo
Book List: A Celebration of Black Voices in Teen Fiction, Creepy, Unsettling and Sometimes Scary Teen Books, Reluctant Teen Readers: Gr 6-8, Summer Fun Reads for Teens
Published by: Clarion
Release Date: 09/01/2015
Author: Ronald Smith
Genre: Teen
Pages: 208
ISBN13: 9780544445253

Twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher was born into a family with a rich tradition of practicing folk magic: hoodoo, as most people call it. But even though his name is Hoodoo, he can't seem to cast a simple spell.        Then a mysterious man called the Stranger comes to town, and Hoodoo starts dreaming of the dead rising from their graves. Even worse, he soon learns the Stranger is looking for a boy. Not just any boy. A boy named Hoodoo. The entire town is at risk from the Stranger’s black magic, and only Hoodoo can defeat him. He’ll just need to learn how to conjure first.        Set amid the swamps, red soil, and sweltering heat of small town Alabama in the 1930s, Hoodoo is infused with a big dose of creepiness leavened with gentle humor.    

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