Mbalia, Kwame

Black boy joy / edited by Kwame Mbalia ; stories by: B.B. Alston [and 16 others]. - First edition. - 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

"17 stories celebrating Black boyhood" -- cover.

The griot of Grover Street: part one / There's going to be a fight in the cafeteria on Friday and you better not bring Batman / "The McCoy game" / The legendary Lawrence Cobbler / First-day fly / Got me a jet pack / Extinct / Epic venture / The definition of cool / The griot of Grover Street: part two / Five thousand light-years to home / Coping / The gender reveal / Kassius's foolproof guide to losing the turkey bowl / But also, jazz / Our dill / Percival and the jab / Embracing my Black boy joy / The griot of Grover Street: part three / by Kwame Mbalia -- by Lamar Giles -- by B. B. Alston -- by Julian Winters -- by Jason Reynolds -- by Don P. Hooper -- by Dean Atta -- by Jay Coles -- by Varian Johnson -- by Kwame Mbalia -- by Suyi Davies Okungbowa -- by Tochi Onyebuchi -- by George M. Johnson -- by Davaun Sanders -- by Julian Randall -- by Justin A. Reynolds -- by P. Djèlí Clark -- by Jerry Craft -- by Kwame Mbalia.

From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.

ISBN: 9780593379936 0593379934 9780593379967

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African American boys
Blacks

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