Ibi Zoboi

2 months ago | barnesandnoble.com | Ibi Zoboi |s We Love |Isabelle McConville

Know Your Power: A Guest Post by Ibi Zoboi Acclaimed author of American Street, Nigeria Jones, Pride and more, Ibi Zoboi has written some of our favorite YA novels — and now we get to obsess over a brand-new one. Read on for Ibi’s exclusive essay on genre, experimentation and writing her new novel, (S)Kin. Hardcover $19.99 Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.

Jan 23, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Ibi Zoboi |Yusef Salaam |Briana Loewinsohn |Nora Neus

Fifteen-year-old Marisol—a soucouyant, or shape-shifting witch, who turns into a flying fireball once a month and feeds on other people’s life forces—longs to escape her magical legacy and wishes she could have a different life. Far away from the monsters and myths back home in the Caribbean and trying to forge a new path in New York City, she and her mother eke out an existence working at a bakery owned by their boss and landlord, Jean-Pierre.

Jan 23, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Briana Loewinsohn |Ibi Zoboi |Nora Neus |Ryan Wolf

Sascha Alper, illus. by Jerry and Brian Pinkney. Random House/Schwartz, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-30912-4Drawing on a parable often told by activist Wangari Maathai, a note acknowledges, this simply articulated tale from debut author Alper delivers an unmistakably crucial message. In a “vast, beautiful” land with “room for everyone”—birds, monkeys, snakes, and giant cats—a tiny hummingbird makes a nest. Then a spark lands on a leaf, setting a quickly moving fire.

Jan 23, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Nora Neus |Briana Loewinsohn |Ibi Zoboi |Ryan Wolf

Nora Neus, illus. by Julie Robine. Little, Brown Ink, $25.99 hardcover 
(304p); $18.99 paper ISBN 978-0-316-43983-1; 
ISBN 978-0-3164-3993-0A determined teen spending the summer with her wealthy aunt and uncle in 1880s New York City eschews societal expectations to find a suitor, instead working as a stunt reporter to expose the city’s injustices in a gripping historical graphic novel by Muhammad Najem, War Reporter creators Neus and Robine.

Jul 2, 2024 | hbook.com | Ibi Zoboi |Lisa Yoskowitz |Alexandra Hightower

I have been writing and telling stories my entire adult life. My first love was journalism — what I consider to be ­truth-telling. Then I fell in love with spoken word poetry — what I consider to be testifying. The need to tell the truth and to testify has always fueled my passion to write. It is my purpose and my life’s work. I was born in Haiti. English is not my first language. I was raised by a single immigrant mother. And where I come from, writers are silenced or sent into exile.