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Cool. Awkward. Black. / edited by Karen Strong. - New York : Viking, 2023. - vi, 325 p. ; 22 cm.

Our joy, our power / Book club / Nina Evans, in the round / Earth is ghetto / Initiative check / Corner booth / Betty's best craft / Panel shows the girl / Spirit-filled / Cole's cruise blues / High strangeness / Catalyst rising / Requiem of souls / Honor code / Drive time / Wolf tracks / Hero's journey / Abyss / Julian Winters -- Shari B. Pennant -- Kalynn Bayron -- Ibi Zoboi -- K. Arsenault Rivera -- Leah Johnson -- Elise Bryant -- Amanda Joy -- Jordan Ifueko -- Isaac Fitzsimons -- Desiree S. Evans -- Tracy Deonn -- Terry J. Benton-Walker -- Kwame Mbalia -- Lamar Giles -- Roseanne A. Brown -- Tochi Onyebuchi -- Amerie

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, January 2023 Publishers Weekly, November 2022 Kirkus Review, December 2022 School Library Journal, May 2023

Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redfines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.

Young Adult Follett School Solutions. 780 Lexile.

ISBN: 9780593525098

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Black people--Juvenile fiction.
Geeks (Computer enthusiasts)--Juvenile fiction.
Black people--Fiction.
Geeks (Computer enthusiasts)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Short stories.

LC Class. No.: PZ5 / .C747 2023

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]