![]() ![]() ![]() It is unbelievably putdownable, in fact, 1 of 2 things happens each time I pick it up: I come up with something more interesting to do or I fall asleep. I have been trying to read this book for 8 weeks but I still haven’t made it halfway. I feel like I was buried under a mountain of details. Oh my!!! The description was just too much. Because life is what it is, the actual highlight of the novel was also its undoing. The specificity Mbalia uses to describe the setting is out of this world! The worldbuilding was extraordinary and I feel like this book is a good mentor text for writers on the subject of setting.ĭOWN: A lot of description slowed the action down. UP: The world building, the setting and the characters particularly, the folktale heroes, Anansi!!!!, the 10” tall doll baby Gum Baby, the iron monsters, the haunted bone ships and the burning sea! I loved them! It’s an adventure story with some of my favourite Ms: magic and mythology. There, he literally punches a hole in the sky and falls through earth into another dimension and the adventure of a lifetime! His parents send him off to Alabama to spend a month with his grandparents to cool off. He has just lost his best friend as well as his very first boxing match. Seventh grader Tristan Strong is down in the dumps. Type of Book: Middle Grade, African, African Folktales, African American, Mythology. Title: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in The Sky ![]()
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