Mama Day Young Adult Fiction African American & Black Romance - Contemporary Social Themes - Friendship Then her mom's grandmother--Imani's great-grandma

Then her mom's grandmother--Imani's great-grandma Anna--passes away

she enters the Thieves’ Gambit

empowering picture book debut

A Chicago Public Library 'Best of the Best' BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the YearA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionA Horn Book Fanfare BookA Common Sense Media Best Book of the YearA CSMCL Best Multicultural Children’s Book of the YearA Booklist Editors’ Choice

Mama Day Young Adult Fiction African American & Black Romance - Contemporary Social Themes - Friendship Then her mom's grandmother--Imani's great-grandmaA powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement a big, strong, admirable novel (New York Times Book Review). On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces.