A phoenix first must burn : sixteen stories of black girl magic, resistance, and hope / edited by Patrice Caldwell.

Contributor(s): Caldwell, PatriceMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020Description: 354 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9781984835659Subject(s): African American girls -- Juvenile fiction | Blacks -- Juvenile fiction | Fantasy fiction, American | Science fiction, American | Magic -- Juvenile fiction | Short stories, American | African Americans -- Fiction | Girls -- Fiction | Blacks -- Fiction | Fantasy | Magic -- FictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction. | Science fiction. | Short stories. Additional physical formats: Online version:: A phoenix first must burnDDC classification: [Fic] LOC classification: PZ5 | .P5453 2020
Contents:
When life hands you a lemon fruitbomb / Amerie -- Gilded / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Wherein Abigail Fields recalls her first death and, subsequently, her best life / Rebecca Roanhorse -- Rules of the land / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- Hagiography of starlight / Somaiya Daud -- Melie / Justina Ireland -- Goddess provides / L. L. McKinney -- Hearts turned to ash / Dhonielle Clayton -- Letting the right one in / Patrice Caldwell -- Tender-headed / Danny Lore -- Kiss the sun / Ibi Zoboi -- Actress / Danielle Paige -- Curse of love / Ashley Woodfolk -- All the time in the world / Charlotte Nicole Davis -- Witch's skin / Karen Strong -- Sequence / J. Marcelle Corrie.
Summary: "Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic"--Publisher provided.
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
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When life hands you a lemon fruitbomb / Amerie -- Gilded / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Wherein Abigail Fields recalls her first death and, subsequently, her best life / Rebecca Roanhorse -- Rules of the land / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- Hagiography of starlight / Somaiya Daud -- Melie / Justina Ireland -- Goddess provides / L. L. McKinney -- Hearts turned to ash / Dhonielle Clayton -- Letting the right one in / Patrice Caldwell -- Tender-headed / Danny Lore -- Kiss the sun / Ibi Zoboi -- Actress / Danielle Paige -- Curse of love / Ashley Woodfolk -- All the time in the world / Charlotte Nicole Davis -- Witch's skin / Karen Strong -- Sequence / J. Marcelle Corrie.

School Library Journal, January 2020

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"Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic"--Publisher provided.

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