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1) The jumbies
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old Black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white boy Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
4) El cayo
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 125
Pub. Date
2006, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste and acclaimed illustrator Amber Ren take readers on a fun, creepy, storytime-ready romp through a forest filled with creatures from Caribbean folklore. I'm looking for a jumbie, I'm going to find a scary one. But Mama says jumbies exist only in stories. So Naya sets out on a nighttime adventure to find out for herself. No such thing, say the friends she makes along the way. But Naya is sure that...