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"Flip open the page. It’s time for you to be emotionally invested in the very normal life of a fantasy character. These fantasy coming-of-age stories have no big quest — it’s literally just a coming-of-age story that takes place in a fantasy setting.
Sometimes, we don’t want to read about someone defeating the fated dragon that has lurked on the western edge of the dark grove. We don’t want a chosen one to fulfill their destiny. We could even do without a bevy of hapless heroes who just had to set out on a quest. Instead, we would much rather prefer to read about someone growing up as best they can without too much fuss. These are those stories."
#No Big Quest — Just Fantasy Coming-of-Age Stories#coming of age#fantasy books#fantasy book recs#THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES BY SANGU MANDANNA#THE HOB’S BARGAIN BY PATRICIA BRIGGS#The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark Book Cover#THE BLACK GOD’S DRUMS BY P. DJÈLÍ CLARK#PET BY AKWAEKE EMEZI#WENCH BY MAXINE KAPLAN#FORGING SILVER INTO STARS BY BRIGID KEMMERER#ACROSS THE GREEN GRASS FIELDS BY SEANAN MCGUIRE#WILDSEED WITCH BY MARTI DUMAS
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Erick Davila’s illustrated cover for Marti Dumas’s Wildseed Witch.
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When this young reader came to our table Saturday, her grandmother guided her to look at the books and study the covers to see if anything spoke to her. No pressure, just space. It was beautiful to watch the interaction.
We secretly hoped that Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas would appeal to the reader since it was a middle-grade title about Black Witches, but sat quietly as they studied the covers and answered questions if they asked.
Once they chose Wildseed Witch, we raved about Hasani, her coven, and the richness of the Black girl magic that enfuse the book. ✨️
It was a good day!
Wildseed Witch & Wildseed Witch: Charmed Life: @SistahScifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/products/wildseed-witch-wildseed-witch-book-1-by-marti-dumas
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#WildSeedWitch #SistahScifi #MartiDumas #BlackGirlMagic #blackwitches #BlackWitch
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Review: Book: Charmed Life- Marti Dumas
Title: Charmed Life
Series: Wildseed Witch #2
Author’s Name: Marti Dumas
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Page Count: 384 Pages
ISBN: 978-1419755637
Author or Book Website: Marti Dumas Books | Children’s books where black kids can be kids.
Link to Amazon purchase page: Charmed Life (Wildseed Witch Book 2): Dumas, Marti: Amazon.com: Books
Link to Goodreads: Charmed…
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Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas
Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas
Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas. Amulet Books, 2022. 9781419755613
Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Fantasy
What did you like about the book? Hasani has two summer goals, and one of them is easy: boost her makeup YouTube channel. With her cheery attitude and natural talent, gaining followers should be no sweat. But the second summer goal – getting…
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10 Books by Black Authors On My TBR!
Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown
Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles
A Song of Wraiths & Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
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Have you read any of these? Would you recommend them?
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Happy reading!
#books#bookish#booklr#bookworm#bookaholic#bibliophile#bibliomania#book blog#book blogger#Features#on books#on reading#read#reading#reader#to-read#tbr#black authors#black history month#jennifer l. eberhardt#christine pride#jo piazza#india hill brown#marti dumas#tracey baptiste#Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé#jay coles#roseanne a. brown#denise williams#julian winters
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What are the publisher's weekly Children's Sneak Previews and how do they decide which books will be included? The Spring 2022 preview was published today. Thanks!
This question made me laugh, because you are telling me that the Publishers Weekly Children's Sneak Preview was published today -- (which was more info than I already had, I hadn't read PW yet today) -- and that you, evidently, saw it or read it (which I hadn't).... and you are asking ME what it is? Like... you tell me, kid, you're the expert!
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/86920-spring-2022-children-s-sneak-previews.html
Anyway, it's pretty straightforward -- as it says on the tin, it's .... a sneak preview. Of books that are coming out in Spring 2022. Listed by imprint. These preview posts come out twice a year, I believe - Fall preview in February or so (for that year), Spring preview (for the following year) in July or so.
This approximates the timing that bookstores use for when they are buying new books -- like, in the next few weeks, book buyers at stores are probably about to start looking at catalogues for Spring 2022 and buying for that season in Fall. So this might give them reminders to keep an eye out for such-and-such or to make sure to investigate imprint x that they didn't know about.
I don't know how they decide what to include. I would assume that the person listed as compiling them either looks at the catalogues and decide what seems interesting or noteworthy to them, or they ASK the publisher "hey, what 3 to 5 books or so per imprint do you want us to highlight in this spring previews thing?"
Anyway, it's by far NOT a comprehensive list of everything that is coming out from every publisher, it's just exactly what it says -- a sneak preview. Implying a TASTE of what is to come. (Also, IMO, the way it's laid out, nobody will ever get to the end until they skip there because it's just way too long and dense! So I'm not sure how useful it is in practice.)
The thing that IS really cool about these lists is that VERY small imprints and publishers are also included, the ones that might easily never make it to other kinds of "roundups" of titles that tend to be dominated by the major imprints -- it's kind of nice to see an even playing field, even if it means that lots of books from major publishers simply cannot be featured for lack of space.
I'll tell you MY books that are in it - yes they are both in the A's. TBH I stopped reading and started really skimming around the C's, so I might have missed one or two. But anyway - I caught two, and I'm sure I have at least 20 books coming out from various imprints in Spring, so... whatever, basically.
* Abrams/Amulet - Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas, the first in a series about Hasani, a teen girl from a non-witch family who discovers her magical ability and earns a scholarship to a fancy, literal charm school
* Algonquin - A Pretty Implausible Premise by Karen Rivers, focusing on the budding romance between two teen elite athletes who have given up their sports and Olympic dreams because they are haunted by the ghosts of their pasts.
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Book Hopefuls: 2022
To counteract whatever 2022 may bring, and to keep my shelves from housing books I don’t like or won’t like, I plan to make heavy use of my library again, arcs from work, and only purchasing books after I’ve read them, not including 6 certain books. But my hope is to get arcs for those too.
Storygraph and Goodreads goal: 26 books
2022 Reading theme: Mood reading + tackling my physical books! (+ SAPPHIC LITERATURE)
(suggested) Authors/Categories:
Palestine culture and history
Kennedy Ryan
Jane Austen
???
James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room
If Beale Street Could Talk
L. Penelope
Earthsinger Chronicles
Translated works
Short story collections
(suggested) Series/Titles I Want to Reread:
Arc of a Scythe or Caraval
Legendborn (in anticipation of Bloodmarked release)
The Bride Test
(suggested, save for Sonic) Comic/Manga/Light Novels
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Sonic IDW comics
Ironheart comics ✅
Ms. Marvel comics
List of 2022 Releases I have my eye on
YA
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn JULY 26
Twice as Perfect by Louisa Onomé JULY 26 ✅
Finding Me by Viola Davis APRIL 26 ✅
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li APRIL 5 ✅
One True Loves by Elise Bryant JANUARY 4 read arc, preordered copy ✅
LOVEBOAT, REUNION by Abigail Hing Wen JANUARY 25
A Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinney FEBURARY 1
No Filter and Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado FEBRUARY 1
This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi FEBRUARY 1
Confessions of An Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney MAY 3
Tokyo Dreaming by Emiko Jean MAY 31 ✅
Zyla & Kai by Kristina Forest JUNE 7
This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron JUNE 21 ✅
Briarcliff Prep by Brianna Peppins FALL 2022 ✅
DISENFRANCHISED FRESHMAN by Kristen R. Lee
YOU TRULY ASSUMED by Laila Sabreen
Love Times Infinity by Lane Clarke ✅
Icebreaker by Al Graziadei
This May End Badly by Samantha Markum ✅
Love from Scratch by Kaitlyn Hill ✅
One for All by Lillie Lainoff
Turning by Joy L Smith
The Monarchs by Danielle Paige, Kass Morgan
The Chosen One by Echo Brown
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It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit by Justin A. Reynolds APRIL 5
Operation Sisterhood by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich JANUARY 4
Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas MAY 10
Anne of West Philly: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Anne of Green Gables by Ivy Noelle Weir MARCH 1
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Amari and the Great Game by B.B. Alston ✅
Golden Girl by Reem Faruqi
Just Right Jillian by Nicole D. Collier
Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms by Jamar J. Perry
ADULT FICTION
So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens
American Royalty by Tracey Livesay
*bolded = I want to pre-order in 2021
*italics = I want to check out/request from library
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We looooved Wildseed Witch and Wildseed Witch: Charmed Life, a middle grade duology centered on Hasani her coven members, Angelique and Dee. Swipe to learn more about the young trio redefining the power of three.
Regardless of your age, the series if the perfect companion for a Soft Black Girl Summer, from glittery eye shadow and dancing swans, to double rainbows and vibrant flowers.
Hasani is the only wildseed in the bunch. Magic is cool and all, but how can you control what you don’t even know you have? While being a green witch is hard, it doesnt stop Hasani from growing a youtuber channel with 1M followers and landing a spot of the Mathletes team. Her familiar is the super adorable kitten Othello!!
First daughter of a first daughter, Angelique is the one everyone wants to be. Luckily, Angelique wants to be Angelique, too. Angelique is 100% living the Charmed Girl life, and is also an math and coding whiz.
Dee is an ArtistKid with a coding game so tight she doesn’t even use magic to boost it. You can catch her chilling at galleries or roaming for street art, but where you WON’T catch her is on the internet. Dee loves representing the FemmeBoi life.
Join the Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday with Marti Dumas today (link in bio: @sistahscifi, and get your copy for the Wildseed Witch Duologoy at www.sistahscifi.com or your local #library!
Reposted from @momteacherwriter and @steph_parcus_wildpets
#WildseedWitch #BeingAWitchIsHard #Being13isHarder #OwnYourMagic #CharmedWitch #WildseedWitchDuology #SistahScifi #SoftLife #SoftBlackGirlSummer #ThePowerofThree
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Reading the middle-grade duology Wildseed Witch and it's sequel, Charmed Life, perfect reads as we enjoy spring weather!!!
We are so excited discuss the series with Marti Dumas during the next Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday!!!! Register here: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/pages/events | https://sistahscifi.com/products/wildseed-witch-wildseed-witch-book-1-by-marti-dumas.
Reposted @the.book.nerd.fox 🌼
🌸 Thank you @momteacherwriter @abramskids and @tlcbooktours for the gifted copy of the book.
🌼 About Wildseed Witch
Publisher: Amulet Books (May 10, 2022)
Hardcover: 352 pages
A fun middle-grade contemporary fantasy with an all-BIPOC cast, about a social-media-loving tween who gets sent to an ultra-private witch camp
Hasani’s post-seventh-grade summer to-do list is pretty simple: get a bigger following for her makeup YouTube channel and figure out how to get her parents back together. What she does NOT expect is that an emotional outburst will spark a latent magical ability in her. Or that the magic will be strong enough to attract the attention of witches. Or that before she can say #BlackGirlMagic, she’ll be shipped off on a scholarship to a fancy finishing school for talented young ladies.
While the other girls have always known they were destined to be witches, Hasani is a Wildseed––a stray witch from a family of non-witches, with no background knowledge, no way to control her magic, and a lot to catch up on. “Wildseed” may be an insult that the other girls throw at her, but Wildseeds are more powerful than they know. And Hasani will learn that there are ways to use magic and thrive that can never be taught in a classroom.
#CharmedLife #WildseedWitch #MartiDumas #middlegrade #SistahScifi #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday
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Hasani's journey continues this Tuesday with the release of Charmed Life, book two of the Wildseed Witch series!!
Marti Dumas will join Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday on May 3rd. Come through!! Registration link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/pages/events.
Reposted @abramskids @rajanilarocca, Newbery honor-winning author of RED, WHITE, AND WHOLE, beautifully sums up the WILDSEED WITCH (written by Marti Dumas) experience: “Readers will cheer Hasani, vibrant as a morning glory, as she embarks on a quest to own her magic and to find friendship, family, and forgiveness.”
The quest begins *this* Tuesday.
Sprinkle a little 🌸🌸🌸 in the comments if you’re ready to see what it’s all about.
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#WildseedWitch #MartiDumas #ownyourmagic #nolabooks #nolalove #mglit #mgfantasy #middlegradefantasy #middlegradeseries #witchesofinstagram #middlegradewitches #kidlit #Sistahscifi #CharmedLife
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Fans of Wildseed Witch will be excited to learn there will be a sequel!! Charmed Life!
We will be discussing the series with Marti Dumas on Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday on May 3rd.
About Charmed Life:
After a summer of being the worst witch at a fancy witch school, Hasani can’t wait to get back to the peace and normalcy of Riverbend Middle where she knows all the rules and is destined to be captain of the Mathletes. There are a few little hiccups to work out—like how she’s going to tell her best friend that she’s a witch—but even though the other two members of Hasani’s coven have joined her friend group and her school, there’s no reason to think that eighth grade won’t be smooth sailing . . . That is until her former friend (and fellow witch) LaToya shows up.
And your favorite Black owned bookstore focused on science fiction and fantasy has signed copies in stock! Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/products/preoder-signed-charmed-life-wildseed-witch-book-2-by-marti-dumas.
Better yet, check it out from your favorite local #library!!
Reposted @blackgirlswithmagicbooks Drop a 🌸 in the comments if you’re reading or want to read WILDSEED WITCH! We absolutely love this quote, when Hasani begins to learn to own her magic. ✨🌺
Graphic: @abramskids
#wildseedwitch #blackgirlmagic #blackgirlswithmagicbooks #martidumas #sistahscifi
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Isn't she lovely
Isn't she wonderful
Isn't she precious
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In our best Stevie Wonder voice @steviewonderlegacy
You can get preorder hardcover editions of Wildseed Witch and Wildseed Witch: Charmed Life signed by Marti Dumas! Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/products/preoder-signed-wildseed-witch-duology
Image reposted from @fourmoonreviews Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas
#wildseedwitch #martidumas #netgalley #middlegrade #middlegradereads #magicalbooks #booksaboutwitches #bookstagram #kidstagram #kidsbooks #youngmagic #femaleauthor #diversereads #SistahScifi
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On May 3rd, Marti Dumas will join Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday to discuss Wildseed Witch and Wildseed Witch: Charmed Life. Wildseed Witch is a middle grade book focused on a young Black witch named Hasani that is full Black Girl Magic!
And look at this cover!!!! 😍 We are proud to offer hardcover editions signed by the author. Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/products/preoder-signed-wildseed-witch-duology
About Wildseed Witch: Hasani’s post-seventh-grade summer to-do list is pretty simple: get a bigger following for her makeup YouTube channel and figure out how to get her parents back together. What she does NOT expect is that an emotional outburst will spark a latent magical ability in her. Or that the magic will be strong enough to attract the attention of witches. Or that before she can say #BlackGirlMagic, she’ll be shipped off on a scholarship to a fancy finishing school for talented young ladies.
Reposted @erickdvila
Cover for Wildseed Witch Charmed Life by @momteacherwriter. 🦋🐱🐍 #WildseedWitch #CharmedLife #MartiDumas #middlegradebook #blackwitch #witches #sistahscifi
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Review: Book: Wildseed Witch- Marti Dumas
Review: Book: Wildseed Witch- Marti Dumas
Title: Wildseed Witch
Series: Wildseed Witch #1
Author’s Name: Marti Dumas
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Genre: Children’s
Page Count: 352 Pages
ISBN: 978-1419755613
Author or Book Website: Marti Dumas Books | Children’s books where black kids can be kids.
Link to Amazon purchase page: Wildseed Witch (Book 1): Dumas, Marti: Amazon.com: Books
Link to Goodreads: Wildseed Witch (Wildseed…
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