Twelve year old Hoodoo Hatcher was born into a family with a rich tradition of practicing folk magic - hoodoo, as most people call it. But even though his name is Hoodoo, he can't seem to cast a simple spell. Then a mysterious man called the Stranger comes to town, and Hoodoo starts dreaming of the dead rising from their graves. Even worse, he soon learns the Stranger is looking for a boy. Not just any boy. A boy named Hoodoo. The entire town is at risk from the Stranger's black magic, and only Hoodoo can defeat him. He'll just need to learn how to conjure first.

 

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company .

Ronald L. Smith is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning author of Hoodoo , The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away , and Black Panther: The Young Prince . He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. strangeblackflowers. com