The Jumbies

The Jumbies

by Tracey Baptiste

Corinne La Mer isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters parents make up to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest. Those shining yellow eyes that followed her to the edge of the trees, they couldn’t belong to a jumbie. Or could they?

When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger speaking to the town witch at the market the next day, she knows something unexpected is about to happen. And when this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne’s house, cooking dinner for Corinne’s father, Corinne is sure that danger is in the air. She soon finds out that bewitching her father, Pierre, is only the first step in Severine’s plan to claim the entire island for the jumbies. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn’t know she possessed to stop Severine and save her island home.

With its able and gutsy heroine, lyrical narration, and inventive twist on the classic Haitian folktale “The Magic Orange Tree,” The Jumbies will be a favorite of fans of Breadcrumbs, A Tale Dark and Grimm, and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.


Ages: 7-12
ISBN: 9781616204143
Price: $15.95
Published by: Algonquin Books for Young Readers

More

  • What If You Had an Animal Home!?
  • There’s No Such Thing as… Mermaids
  • Such a Library!
  • Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden
  • Makers
  • Lovely Day
  • Lily Blue Riding Hood
  • The Legend of Tiger and Tail-Flower
  • I Am Curious: An Acorn Book (Princess Truly #7)
  • Frankenstein’s Matzah
  • Counting on Naamah
  • Asteroid Goldberg—Passover in Outer Space
  • Aiko and the Planet of the Dogs
  • Your House Is Not Just a House
  • You’re a Star, Lolo!
  • You Wonder All the Time
  • You Made Fun of My Sandwich
  • You Can’t Be a Pterodactyl!
  • You Can Throw a Party!
  • Wonder Walkers
Back to Top