Tristan Strong Destroys the World sucks readers in from the very first page and demands to be read late into the night with its excellent, intelligent writing and gripping cliffhangers. The kidnapping is a tense opening scene that sets the tone for the entire book. With Nana gone and much of Alke struggling to recover from Tristan’s last adventure here, he finds an unlikely alley in the trickster god Anansi as his Anansesem powers seem to vanish along with Nana. Readers join Tristan as he returns to Alke and races to save not only Nana but all of Alke, the land of African-American folk heroes and African gods, alongside some familiar faces from book one, including his sidekick (though she’d never agree to that title) Gum Baby. When Tristan’s grandmother is abducted in the night by a frightening and powerful villain, he is forced once again into the role of hero. The world building of this series is truly spectacular and easily comparable to the best titles in children’s literature. Following the wildly successful bestselling first installment, book two, entitled Tristan Strong Destroys the World, once again transports readers from their bedroom, reading nook, or classroom to the world of Alke. Each generation only gets a handful of series that soar beyond comparison to its competitors, and right now, that series is the Tristan Strong trilogy.
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